What 𗛾 means
𗛾 denotes gravel or loose stones in Tangut.
Tangut was a historical language with its own writing system. Its characters can resemble Chinese writing, but 𗛾 itself is not a Chinese character.
Tangut writing was created around 1036 for official, private, and religious texts. It continued after the Western Xia state fell and became obsolete by the end of the Ming period.
Historical and specialist; it belongs in writing about Tangut or historical texts.
𗛾 is Tangut writing, not a Chinese character; a Chinese gloss does not make the glyph interchangeable.
Who writes 𗛾
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Worth knowing
- Scholars write the reconstructed reading of 𗛾 as khjij: a Latin-letter notation for Tangut, not a Tangut spelling.
Questions people ask
1Can 𗛾 appear as a box?
Yes. The character needs a font with Tangut coverage; a missing-glyph box reflects the font, not a different symbol.
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How to type or find 𗛾
- Search it as
- gravel · loose stones · Tangut · Xixia · khjij · 礫
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𗛾\176FECodes and encoding1 code points
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