What 𗖻 means
Its dictionary gloss is “dirty.” Li Fanwen’s Tangut dictionary identifies this entry as LFW 0955.
The origins of the Tangut script reach back to around 1036, when it was devised for Western Xia, a Tangut-led state, including government and Buddhist translation. Its designers drew visual and structural ideas from Chinese writing without simply deriving Tangut from it, following neighboring Khitan states in creating a native script. It appeared in official, private, and religious texts, and remained in use for centuries after Western Xia fell. A Khara-Khoto manuscript probably dates to the 12th or early 13th century.
A Tangut pronunciation glossary called Pearl in the Palm gives scholars’ reconstruction of this character’s sound as roughly “pee-oo.” It uses Chinese 哺 as a sound clue; in Mandarin, 哺 sounds roughly like “boo” with a tone that dips and rises. This comparison helps with pronunciation, while the Tangut dictionary supplies the gloss “dirty.”
Why does 𗖻 show a box?
The box means the font lacks this glyph.
Tangut font support determines whether 𗖻 renders at all. A font without this glyph may show an empty box; fonts that support it can draw details differently.
Historical and scholarly; the gloss comes from a Tangut dictionary.
The English word “dirty” is not a ready-made message.
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1Can I type 𗖻 with a regular keyboard?
Tangut input methods search by dictionary number, character parts called radicals, or stroke codes; they do not use ordinary letter-by-letter typing.
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- Also called
- LFW 0955 · Tangut 0955
- Search it as
- Tangut · Xixia · Western Xia · dirty · Tangut font · Tangut input method
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
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