What 𗔎 means
It is one character in the historical Tangut script.
Its exact reading comes from the Tangut word or passage around it; the catalog label identifies the character but does not translate it. Alone, the glyph has no established independent reading.
The earliest surviving Tangut writing dates to the 11th century. The first Western Xia emperor had the script created around 1036 for the state. It carried Buddhist translations, legal texts, manuscripts, and printed books. After Western Xia fell in 1227, Tangut texts continued in Buddhist printing under the Yuan; the script fell out of use by the end of the Ming dynasty.
Tangut drew on Chinese and Khitan script traditions, but this character represents Tangut, not Chinese.
Who writes 𗔎
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𗔎 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 𗔎
- Search it as
- 1750E · U+1750E · Tangut 1750E · Tangut script · Xixia script · 西夏文
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𗔎\1750ECodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.