What 𗙓 means
Its recorded reading depends on the Tangut source.
Tangut is the writing system for the Tangut language. The Western Xia emperor ordered its creation for state-building around 1036. It drew on Chinese and Khitan writing models but is a separate script. It served administration and cultural projects, especially the translation of Buddhist scriptures. A manuscript from Khara-Khoto, an archaeological site in Inner Mongolia, dated to the 12th or early 13th century, shows that the script also carried secular translations.
Li Fanwen’s index records this character as kjwi. A Western Xia geography fragment gives da, while Unicode unification data gives lwen for a transliteration. These are scholarly spellings recorded by different sources, not readings you can choose from the glyph alone.
Historical and specialist; it fits Tangut texts and reference work that identifies its reading.
The glyph alone does not tell you which source's reading applies.
Who writes 𗙓
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𗙓 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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