What 𗒲 means
It means “to amuse” in Tangut. A Tangut–Chinese dictionary gives that gloss; a scholarly pronunciation database reconstructs its reading as tśie¹.
The Tangut script was created around 1036–1037 for Western Xia state writing. An official military letter from Guazhou dated 1072 is the earliest surviving Tangut document; the script also carried Buddhist translations. Tangut writing continued after Western Xia fell in 1227, and a 1502 inscription is known. It is distinct from Chinese writing, though it drew on Chinese and probably Khitan models.
Who writes 𗒲
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𗒲 appear as a square?
It is a font-coverage issue: the font used for the page may lack this glyph, so a fallback square appears. That box does not mean the character or its meaning is different.
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How to type or find 𗒲
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- Tangut character · Tangut script · Xixia · xixiawen · tśie · amuse · entertain
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𗒲\174B2Codes and encoding1 code points
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