What 𗏁 means
Rime Xunpin enters Tangut through reconstructed readings, strokes, or Four Corner codes.
Its phonetic mode uses a scholarly reconstruction written in Latin letters; the other modes use stroke sequences or shape-based codes. The scheme documented as of 2026 offers all three, and a Tangut-capable font is needed to see the result.
What does 𗏁 mean?
It is the Tangut numeral for five.
Tangut writing was created in 1036 for Western Xia state-building; a major intended purpose was producing a Tangut Buddhist canon, a collection of Buddhist scriptures. Its characters drew on Chinese forms and composition principles without deriving from the Chinese script.
A manuscript page found at Khara-Khoto in Inner Mongolia is thought to date to the 12th or early 13th century. After the 13th-century Mongol conquest, the Tangut language disappeared from daily use; later, a bilingual word list called the Pearl in the Palm helped scholars decipher the writing.
Historical and specialist; readers unfamiliar with Tangut may need a sentence of context.
Without Tangut font coverage, the reader may see a missing-glyph box.
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Who writes 𗏁
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Don't confuse it with
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ལྔ The Tibetan word ལྔ also means “five”; linguists trace it and Tangut 𗏁 to a shared ancestral word in the Sino-Tibetan language family. They are related numeral words, not interchangeable spellings.
Questions people ask
1Why does 𗏁 appear as a box?
It can when the active font lacks Tangut coverage. Noto Serif Tangut documentation confirms Tangut script coverage as of 2026.
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How to type or find 𗏁
- Search it as
- tangut five · xixia five · tangut numeral · xixia numeral · tangut font · tangut input
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
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