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𗎭

tangut ideograph-173ad

Tangut character 173AD

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𗎭 means “house” or “home” in the historical Tangut language. In a message, it points to Tangut history or scholarship; a Buddhist passage can give it the sense “palace” or “residence.”

Text symbol

What 𗎭 means

Its basic sense is a dwelling. It appears in Wénhǎi and Tóngyīn, 12th-century Tangut reference works.

A passage in the Buddhist Huayan Sutra (a scripture) translates it as “palace” or “residence”; context sets that sense.

What does it mean if someone sends 𗎭?

Read it as historical Tangut writing. A message with it points to the language, script, or history.

The script took shape around 1036 to serve Western Xia, a Tangut state, and to translate Buddhist scriptures. Its forms drew on Chinese writing but remained distinct.

Historical and scholarly in tone.

As of 2026, without a Tangut-capable font it may display as a box.

Who writes 𗎭

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Questions people ask

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Why does 𗎭 show as a box on some devices?

Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.

How to type or find 𗎭

Search it as
Tangut house · Tangut home
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
⎇Alt+XType 173AD, then AltX to get 𗎭.
Windows
⊞Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win .).
macOS
⌃Control+⌘Command+␣SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “tangut ideograph-173ad”.
Linux
⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType 173ad, then Enter or Space.
HTML
𗎭
CSS
\173AD
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𗎭
HTML hex
𗎭
CSS content
content: "\173AD";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%97%8E%AD
1
On screen
1
Code points
2
JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

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