Tangut character 1770C

It is a Tangut word glossed as “to appear.” Li Fanwen’s 2008 Tangut dictionary lists it as entry 4184 under that gloss. The character index records the scholarly reading śja, a Latin-letter notation for Tangut sounds; the gloss translates the word rather than describing its shape.

Tangut writing was created under Western Xia’s first emperor about 1036 CE to write the Tangut language. It served official and private writing, education, literature, and religious life; Buddhist translation and printing were major uses. In the Western Xia state, Chinese and Tibetan monks taught in the capital, and Buddhist works from those traditions were translated and printed in Tangut. After Western Xia fell to the Mongols, the script continued through the Yuan and Ming dynasties, then became obsolete by the end of the Ming dynasty.

Is 𗜌 Chinese?

No; it belongs to the separate Tangut script. Tangut was its own language, distantly related to Tibetan. Its square characters can resemble Chinese ideographs, but the writing systems are distinct and unrelated.

Why does 𗜌 show as a box?

The font cannot display this Tangut glyph. A font without Tangut coverage may show an empty box. Fonts that support the character can still draw its strokes differently; the character’s identity remains the same.