Tangut character for sweet

Its lexical gloss is “sweet.”

Tangut was officially introduced around 1036 under Li Yuanhao, the first Western Xia emperor, as a state-building project. Its likely aims included a Buddhist canon—a collection of scripture—in Tangut and a distinct identity from Song China. The script carried official, private, religious, and translated works. A mid-12th-century rhyme dictionary, the Sea of Characters, grouped words by rhyme and analyzed how compound characters were built from their parts.

After Western Xia fell, writing continued through the Yuan and Ming dynasties, becoming obsolete by the end of the Ming. Scholars rediscovered Tangut in the late 19th century and largely deciphered it in the early 20th.

Why does 𗗘 look different in fonts?

Different outlines can encode the same character.

Unicode's Tangut encoding rules keep source forms separate only when a source distinguishes them as separate entries. A font can therefore draw 𗗘 with a different outline without changing the encoded character.

Traditional Tangut writing ran top to bottom in columns read right to left. Current scholarly editions use horizontal lines read left to right.

How do I type 𗗘?

Use a Unicode escape in code or an HTML reference.

In JavaScript, Rust, or Ruby string literals, \u{175D8} represents the character; HTML uses 𗗘. If it shows as a box, the selected font lacks a Tangut glyph, but the character data can still be present.