What 𗚖 means
It names a length measured from hand to hand. A Tangut dictionary glosses 𗚖 with the Chinese character 庹, a measure based on how far an adult can stretch both arms. Its reconstructed Tangut reading is written ¹lhor'₁; this scholarly notation estimates a historical sound rather than giving a modern pronunciation guide.
Tangut was created around 1036 as a state script for the Tangut language under Western Xia. It appears in official, private, and Buddhist texts, continued in writing through the Yuan and Ming periods, then fell out of use; scholars rediscovered the script in the late 19th century.
Is this Chinese or Tangut?
It is Tangut, a distinct writing system. Tangut writing was influenced by Chinese and uses dense, square characters, but it records the Tangut language. Khitan and Jurchen scripts are historical comparisons from the same broad period of state script-making; neither is another name or reading for 𗚖.
In a message, this historical character reads as a Tangut script sample; its armspan meaning needs context.
Alone, it is unlikely to communicate “armspan” to someone who cannot read Tangut.
Who writes 𗚖
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Questions people ask
1Why does this symbol show as a square?
Some apps lack a Tangut-capable font to draw this character and show a square placeholder instead. The character is still present; that app has no glyph for it.
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How to type or find 𗚖
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- Tangut · Xixia · armspan · lhor
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𗚖\17696Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.