What 𗜤 means
𗜤 is glossed “a kind of tree.”
The Wén Hǎi, a Tangut dictionary dated 1124–31, records it at entry 54.143. Its reconstructed reading is written *kjiw¹.
Why does 𗜤 look like Chinese writing?
Its square form resembles Chinese writing; Tangut is a separate script.
Introduced in 1036, the script served official writing and Buddhist texts. Tangut writing continued in Yuan-era Buddhist and scholarly settings after Western Xia (Xixia) fell to the Mongols in 1227.
Historical and specialist; it marks a text in the Tangut tradition.
Blank square? Your font may lack Tangut coverage.
Who writes 𗜤
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𗜤 show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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How to type or find 𗜤
- Search it as
- Tangut character · kind of tree · Xixia · Wén Hǎi · kjiw
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𗜤\17724Codes and encoding1 code points
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