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𗜒

tangut ideograph-17712

Tangut character for casket

1811/6136

𗜒 is a Tangut character glossed as “casket,” a container for burial. The Tangut script, the writing system for the Tangut language, was created under Western Xia’s first emperor around 1036 for official, cultural, and religious writing. A 2019 Unicode note records historical sources with a different form for one component near the character’s lower middle.

Text symbol

What 𗜒 means

𗜒 is the tangut ideograph-17712. Unicode classifies it as a letter and files it in the Tangut block; this site shelves it under Chinese, Japanese & Korean.

Its appearance depends on the font and text styling.

How it is encoded

𗜒 is a single code point, U17712. In HTML that is 𗜒, and in CSS \17712.

Who writes 𗜒

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Worth knowing

  • A 2019 Unicode note records the character in three historical references, whose titles are rendered in English as Homophones, Pearl in the Palm, and Homonyms.

Questions people ask

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Why might 𗜒 show as a blank or box?

Your app’s font may lack Tangut coverage. If it has no glyph for this character, it may leave an empty space or show a box.

How to type or find 𗜒

Also called
kha · casket
Search it as
Tangut casket · Tangut kha · Xixia script
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
⎇Alt+XType 17712, then AltX to get 𗜒.
Windows
⊞Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win .).
macOS
⌃Control+⌘Command+␣SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “tangut ideograph-17712”.
Linux
⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType 17712, then Enter or Space.
HTML
𗜒
CSS
\17712
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𗜒
HTML hex
𗜒
CSS content
content: "\17712";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%97%9C%92
1
On screen
1
Code points
2
JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

Families this belongs to

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Chinese, Japanese & Korean121,370 symbols