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𗗞

tangut ideograph-175de

Tangut ideograph 175DE

𗗞 is a Tangut character with a reconstructed reading, but that reading is not an English definition. The script was created around 1036 to write Tangut in the Western Xia kingdom of what is now northwestern China. If the character displays as a box, the selected font may lack Tangut coverage.

Text symbol
Search it as
𗗞 · 175DE · Tangut · Xixia · Tangut character · Tangut font · Tangut reading · liẹj¹
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Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What 𗗞 means

𗗞 has a reconstructed Tangut reading, not an English translation. A Tangut lexicon records liẹj¹ as a scholarly Latin-letter transcription of that inferred reading. It represents a reconstructed sound, not a translation; the word's meaning depends on the Tangut passage where it appears.

The Tangut script was created around 1036 under the first emperor of Western Xia, a kingdom in what is now northwestern China, to write the Tangut language. It was used from about the 11th century through the 16th century and rediscovered in the late 19th century.

Some Tangut characters resemble Han characters, the character system used in Chinese and adapted into other East Asian writing systems. Tangut is a separate script, unrelated to Han ideographs; a similar-looking Han character is not a translation of 𗗞.

How can I type 𗗞?

Use Unicode hexadecimal entry if your app supports it. Enter 175DE in an app's Unicode code-point input, then commit the character. The exact keystroke depends on the operating system and app.

U+175DE is beyond Unicode's first 65,536 code points. UTF-16, a common text encoding, represents a character in that range with two code units; together they still form one character.

Specialist and archival; it belongs in Tangut texts, historical study, or font and Unicode work.

A reconstructed reading is not an English definition of the word.

What it means when someone sends it to you

3 readings
In a longer Tangut passage
Use the surrounding Tangut text and a lexicon; the reconstructed reading is not an English gloss.
Someone sent 𗗞
The character alone does not explain why it was sent; ask what Tangut word or source was intended.
It arrived as a box
The text may contain 𗗞, but the selected font cannot draw it.

Questions people ask

1

Why does 𗗞 appear as a box?

Font coverage. If the selected font lacks Tangut glyphs, the app shows a missing-character marker; choose a Tangut-capable font in that app.

How to type 𗗞

Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 175DE, then Alt+X to get 𗗞.
Windows
Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win + .).
macOS
Control+Command+SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “tangut ideograph-175de”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 175de, then Enter or Space.
HTML
𗗞
CSS
\175DE
Unicode hexadecimal input
Enter 175DE in a Unicode code-point input feature; the app must support characters beyond the first 65,536 code points.
Display
If it appears as a box, select a Tangut-capable font in the app displaying the text.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𗗞
HTML hex
𗗞
CSS content
content: "\175DE";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%97%97%9E
1
On screen
1
Code points
2
JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

Families this belongs to

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