Tangut character 173EF

It is glossed as “pool efforts,” roughly “join forces.”

This character’s entry in Li Fanwen’s Tangut dictionary, no. 3707, is glossed in English as “pool efforts.” A Tangut grammar also lists entry 3707 as an optative prefix, a grammatical marker that makes a clause express a wish. These are historical descriptions of its use in Tangut, not interchangeable chat readings.

The Tangut script was commissioned by the first emperor of Western Xia, a Tangut kingdom, in 1036–1037 to write Tangut and support official, legal, and Buddhist texts. The earliest known surviving example is an official document from 1072. After Western Xia fell in 1227, Tangut writing continued under Yuan and Ming rule, then became obsolete by the end of the Ming period (1368–1644). This distinct state script stood alongside Chinese and Tibetan traditions and expressed Western Xia identity.

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