What 𗚿 means
It is glossed as “branch” in Tangut.
The Unicode Tangut chart links 𗚿 to dictionary entry 4109, whose index glosses it as “branch.” “Tangut Ideograph-176BF” is a catalog label, not a translation.
The Tangut script was created under Western Xia’s first emperor around 1036 CE to write Tangut, a Tibeto-Burman language in the wider Sino-Tibetan family, spoken in present-day northwestern China. Its square, component-built characters resemble Chinese writing, but it is a separate script. After Western Xia fell to the Mongols, Tangut writing continued during the Yuan and Ming dynasties and became obsolete by the end of the Ming dynasty.
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Who writes 𗚿
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𗚿 show as a square?
Without a font that covers Tangut, 𗚿 can appear as an empty box. Unicode identifies the character; the font draws its shape.
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How to type or find 𗚿
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- tangut · xixia · branch · western xia · tangut script
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𗚿\176BFCodes and encoding1 code points
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