What 𗏢 means
Its dictionary gloss is “bad” or “evil.” This Tangut entry is paired with Chinese 歹 as its translation; specialists transcribe its reconstructed reading as ɣur¹. The gloss translates the entry; it does not make 𗏢 Chinese.
Tangut writing was developed around 1036 for Western Xia (Xixia), including Buddhist translation; it served official, legal, and literary texts. Its script drew on Chinese and Khitan models but wrote a different language. 𗏢 appears in the medieval Sea of Characters, a rhyme dictionary grouping characters by rhyme. Tangut religious writing continued during the Yuan and Ming periods.
This is historical Tangut writing; in a modern message, it signals Tangut or Western Xia context.
Its Chinese gloss does not make it a direct insult.
Who writes 𗏢
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𗏢 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.
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How to type or find 𗏢
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- Tangut script · Xixia script · ɣur¹
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
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