What 𗘎 means
Its Unicode name is an identifier, not a translation.
The Tangut script was created under Western Xia’s first emperor about 1036. A scholarly account links its design to Chinese and Khitan writing models, but Tangut is a distinct script. It served official, private, and religious writing, including Buddhist texts translated from Chinese and Tibetan.
After Western Xia fell to the Mongols, Tangut writing continued under Yuan and Ming rule and became obsolete by the end of the Ming dynasty. A manuscript found at Khara-Khoto, a Tangut city site, probably dates to the 12th or early 13th century.
Who writes 𗘎
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𗘎 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 𗘎
- Search it as
- Tangut script · Xixia writing · Western Xia script · Tangut font
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𗘎\1760E1760E; otherwise search Tangut Ideograph-1760E in its character picker.Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.