What 𗓚 means
Scholars reconstruct its Tangut reading as ma. This is an inferred pronunciation, not a translation.
A transliteration represents sounds in another script; here 𗓚 corresponds to Chinese 摩.
Under Western Xia’s first emperor, the Tangut script was created around 1036 to write the Tangut language. It served official, private, and religious texts. It remained in use through the Yuan and Ming periods, was obsolete by the end of Ming, and was rediscovered in the late 19th century.
Historical Tangut character; its Chinese-like shape belongs to a separate script.
Is 𗓚 Chinese? No; Tangut is a separate script.
Who writes 𗓚
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1Why does 𗓚 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.
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How to type or find 𗓚
- Search it as
- Xixia · ma · 174DA
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𗓚\174DACodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.