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
1Why 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
𗎭\173ADCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

