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𗏫

tangut ideograph-173eb

Tangut Character

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𗏫 is a Tangut character. To understand its word meaning, read it in a Tangut dictionary and its original passage; its Unicode label is only an identifier.

Text symbol

What 𗏫 means

The Unicode name tells you which glyph this is, not what word it represents.

The Tangut script, also called the Xixia script, was created under Western Xia’s first emperor around 1036 for the Tangut language. After the dynasty fell, it remained in use in official and private works, Buddhist scriptures, inscriptions, and manuscripts; it fell out of use by the end of the Ming period. This is a Tangut character, not Chinese writing or emoji, although its forms resemble Chinese characters.

Why does 𗏫 show as a blank box?

The selected font may lack Tangut characters.

Choose a Tangut font that covers this script to display the glyph.

It reads as specialist historical-script text, not a familiar chat symbol.

Do not infer a Chinese translation from its shape.

Who writes 𗏫

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Questions people ask

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Why does 𗏫 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 𗏫

Search it as
Xixia script · 𗏫 meaning · Tangut font
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Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
⎇Alt+XType 173EB, then AltX to get 𗏫.
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-173eb”.
Linux
⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType 173eb, then Enter or Space.
HTML
𗏫
CSS
\173EB
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𗏫
HTML hex
𗏫
CSS content
content: "\173EB";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%97%8F%AB
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.

Families this belongs to

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