What 𗙤 means
It is a Tangut transliteration character.
Li Fanwen’s Tangut–Chinese dictionary labels entry L1123 “a transliteration” and reconstructs its reading as pjĩ: p, a y-like glide, and a nasalized i. This scholarly reconstruction is not an everyday pronunciation guide.
The Tangut script, also called Xixia script, was created around 1036 for the Tangut language. It served Western Xia, a Tangut kingdom, in government, private, and Buddhist writing. After it fell out of everyday use, researchers turned to surviving texts; today, they study them. 𗙤 may resemble a Chinese character, but it belongs to a distinct script.
Historical and scholarly in register.
Without Tangut font coverage, 𗙤 may appear as an empty square.
Who writes 𗙤
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Questions people ask
1Why does this Tangut character show as a square?
Missing font coverage. The character is still present; the app needs a Tangut-capable font such as Noto Serif Tangut or Tangut Yinchuan to draw it.
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How to type or find 𗙤
- Also called
- Tangut L1123
- Search it as
- Tangut transliteration · Xixia script · 𗙤 meaning
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𗙤\17664Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.