Tangut Ideograph-17502

Its reconstructed reading is written tsji¹; this is not a translation.

Wénhǎi (Sea of Writing), a historical Tangut dictionary, lists 𗔂 at position 18.242. tsji¹ is a scholarly Latin-letter transcription of its reconstructed reading. The number in the Unicode name identifies the character; it is not a Tangut word.

The Tangut script was created about 1036 for the Western Xia, a state ruled by Tangut emperors. Emperor Li Yuanhao and his official Yeli Renrong sponsored it for government and cultural writing, while giving the state a writing system distinct from Han Chinese writing. Tangut forms drew on Chinese and Khitan traditions, but the script is its own system. An official military document dated 1072 is among the earliest surviving Tangut documents. Later Tangut books include Buddhist, legal, economic, and literary works; people continued to study the script after the state ended.

Why does 𗔂 show as a box?

Your font does not include a Tangut glyph.

Unicode encodes the character, but the font supplies its visible design. Without a Tangut-capable font, it can appear as a square or fallback mark; that is a display problem, not a different character. Supported fonts can draw it differently while the underlying text stays the same.