What 𗙾 means
Its Tangut gloss is “golden.”
One Tangut index writes a reconstructed reading as ŋwe; a Unicode working paper writes kwai. These are scholarly spellings for an extinct language, not a modern Chinese reading.
Tangut script was created under Western Xia’s first emperor around 1036 CE for official and cultural writing. Surviving works include Buddhist scriptures, translations from Chinese and Tibetan, Confucian texts, encyclopedias, military treatises, and literature. Scholars link the native script to efforts to mark cultural and political distance from Song China. After the Mongol conquest of Western Xia, Tangut remained in Yuan- and Ming-period texts and became obsolete by the end of the Ming dynasty. The documented gloss of 𗙾 remains “golden”; this history describes the script’s setting, not a change in this character’s meaning.
Why does 𗙾 show as a box?
Your app or font lacks a Tangut glyph.
Tangut IME Online's published note warns that Tangut text may fail to render in other mobile apps, while a computer with Tangut fonts can display it. A box means the app cannot draw this character, even if the underlying text is present.
This is a specialist historical character; in ordinary chat, it signals interest in Tangut or historic scripts.
Without context, a bare “golden” gloss is unlikely to tell the recipient what you mean.
Who writes 𗙾
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Worth knowing
- Tangut dictionaries use more than one sorting system; modern references generally group characters by components and stroke count. Looking up a reading or dictionary entry can be easier than guessing the order.
Questions people ask
1Can a modern Chinese reader read 𗙾?
No, not automatically. Tangut is a separate historical language with its own script, so knowing modern Chinese alone does not teach a reader this character.
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How to type or find 𗙾
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- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𗙾\1767ECodes and encoding1 code points
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