What 𗕬 means
The entry pairs a reading with a Chinese gloss. Specialists write its reconstructed Tangut reading as shy in Latin letters; the gloss uses 琢, meaning “carve or polish.” The spelling shy labels the reading, not the English adjective.
Tangut writing was created in 1036 for Western Xia state-building, Buddhist translation, and political identity. It drew on Chinese writing principles and earlier Khitan state scripts while remaining distinct. A Khara-khoto Tangut manuscript is probably from the 12th or early 13th century.
Unicode 16.0 describes source-based glyph variants for Tangut, so fonts may show different shapes for the same encoded character.
Historical Tangut writing with a specialist reconstructed reading.
The Latin spelling shy is not the English adjective.
Who writes 𗕬
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𗕬 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 𗕬
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- tangut · xixia · tangut script · tangut character · tangut 1756c · shy tangut
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𗕬\1756CCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.