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𗒙

tangut ideograph-17499

Tangut Character 17499

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𗒙 is a Tangut character; “Tangut Ideograph-17499” is a label, not a translation, so its meaning comes from Tangut context. Created under Western Xia’s first emperor around 1036 for government writing and Buddhist translations, Tangut remained in official, private, and religious texts after the state fell. It resembles Chinese writing but is distinct. A 2018 study suggests structural influence from Khitan Small Script, though the scripts are not closely related.

Text symbol

What 𗒙 means

𗒙 is the tangut ideograph-17499. 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

𗒙 is a single code point, U17499. In HTML that is 𗒙, and in CSS \17499.

Who writes 𗒙

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Questions people ask

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Why does 𗒙 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 𗒙

Search it as
tangut ideograph-17499 · tangut ideograph-17499 symbol · tangut ideograph-17499 copy paste
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
⎇Alt+XType 17499, then AltX to get 𗒙.
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-17499”.
Linux
⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType 17499, then Enter or Space.
HTML
𗒙
CSS
\17499
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𗒙
HTML hex
𗒙
CSS content
content: "\17499";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%97%92%99
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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Chinese, Japanese & Korean121,370 symbols