What 𗓥 means
It means “dawn,” the first light of day. Tangut writing records the Tangut language in official, private, and religious texts, including Buddhist translations from Chinese and Tibetan.
Western Xia created the script around 1036 under its first emperor, to distinguish the state from Song China and support Buddhist translation. A Khara-Khoto manuscript probably dates to the 12th or early 13th century; use continued under Yuan and Ming.
Specialist and archival; give the gloss outside Tangut studies.
Without context, it may look decorative.
Who writes 𗓥
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𗓥 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 𗓥
- Search it as
- dawn · daybreak · sunrise · Tangut · Xixia · Tangut script
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𗓥\174E5Codes and encoding1 code points
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