What 𗑺 means
𗑺 is the tangut ideograph-1747a. Unicode classifies it as a letter and files it in the Tangut block; this site shelves it under Chinese, Japanese & Korean.
Its appearance depends on the font and text styling.
How it is encoded
𗑺 is a single code point, U1747A. In HTML that is 𗑺, and in CSS \1747A.
Historical and scholarly; the English gloss renders a word from Tangut texts.
𗑺 is Tangut, not Chinese; Tangut is a separate writing system with a similar square appearance.
Who writes 𗑺
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𗑺 show as a box?
The active font lacks Tangut support. A Tangut-capable font can render 𗑺; the box is a display failure, not another character.
How to type or find 𗑺
- Search it as
- gather · Tangut · Xixia · 4763 · 𘡊
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𗑺\1747ACodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

