What 𗐵 means
𗐵 is a Tangut verb form glossed “to see.”
Li Fanwen’s English index to a Tangut dictionary lists 𗐵 under “to see.” A grammatical description pairs 𘟀, transcribed ljij², with 𗐵, transcribed lji², as forms of the same verb.
Tangut is an extinct language, so this gloss belongs to historical Tangut text.
Why was the Tangut script created?
It gave the Western Xia state a writing system for Tangut.
The script was created under Western Xia’s first emperor around 1036. Government schools taught it; officials used it for state documents, and some diplomatic texts were bilingual. Buddhist scriptures translated from Tibetan and Chinese were also printed from woodblocks in Tangut.
After Western Xia fell, people continued to use Tangut through the Yuan and Ming periods. The last known example is a pair of Tangut dhāraṇī pillars erected in 1502—stone monuments inscribed with Buddhist texts.
Historical and specialist; it belongs in a Tangut-language context.
Who writes 𗐵
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Questions people ask
2Why does 𗐵 show as a square?
A font-support issue. When the font lacks Tangut support, the character may appear as an empty space, a box, or a replacement mark; choose a Tangut-capable font.
Is 𗐵 Chinese?
No. It belongs to the Tangut script, created for the Tangut language under Western Xia. Tangut writing was inspired by Chinese characters, but it writes a different language.
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𗐵\17435Codes and encoding1 code points
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