What 𗙚 means
It names the back of a person or thing.
Li Fanwen's Tangut dictionary gives the reconstructed reading wjij and glosses its entry as “the back of somebody or something.” That is a dictionary meaning; a message's surrounding words show what the character refers to.
The Tangut script was established for the Tangut language under the Western Xia state. In 1036, ruler Li Yuanhao had a formal writing system created. It served government writing, Buddhist texts, and translated Chinese books, while giving the state a distinct written identity.
Why does 𗙚 look like Chinese writing?
Tangut is a separate script inspired by Chinese writing.
Tangut was visually and structurally inspired by Chinese, but it was not derived from it. The Khitan neighbors had created their own scripts a century earlier, a regional parallel in state script-making—not evidence that 𗙚 is Khitan.
Unicode's Tangut chart files 𗙚 under radical 𘡢, a graphic label used to group characters for lookup. A Tangut-capable font is needed to display the glyph; different fonts may draw it differently.
Historical and scholarly; unusual as an unexplained word in an everyday message.
The gloss says “back”; the message must show what it refers to.
Who writes 𗙚
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What it means when someone sends it to you
3 readingsA word glossed as “the back of somebody or something”; surrounding words identify the referent.
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Questions people ask
2How is 𗙚 pronounced?
There is no single agreed reconstruction. Li Fanwen's dictionary index gives wjij. A 2018 study of the Tangut text Homonyms records it in a group transcribed phin₄; the text may reflect another dialect or a later stage. These are scholarly reconstructions, not everyday pronunciation spellings.
Why is 𗙚 a blank box?
Your font lacks Tangut coverage. Use one that supports Tangut; the character can be encoded correctly even when your font cannot draw it.
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How to type or find 𗙚
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- Tangut character for back · Tangut 1765A · wjij · phin₄ · Xixia script · Tangut font · Tangut input method
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𗙚\1765ACodes and encoding1 code points
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