What 𗜪 means
Use BabelPad’s Unicode mode or a Tangut input method. As of 2026, Unicode mode accepts 1772A followed by Space or Enter; its sample input files include “Tangut (stroke codes)” and “Tangut (Miyake).” The stroke-code method searches by form; the Miyake method uses scholarly reconstructed readings.
What does 𗜪 mean?
It means “building” in Tangut. A Tangut dictionary called the Sea of Writing lists the character at 53.172; scholars reconstruct its historical reading as leɯ, roughly “le” followed by a high “u”-like vowel made without rounding the lips.
If you are asking “Is 𗜪 Chinese?”, no: it belongs to Tangut, also called Xixia, a separate script that resembles Chinese characters. Tangut was created for the Tangut language under the first emperor of the Western Xia kingdom, in what is now northwestern China, around 1036.
The script was used in official, private, and Buddhist texts, including translations of Chinese works. Tangut texts continued after Western Xia fell; dated use reaches 1502.
Historical and specialist; explain it as “building” outside Tangut study.
Sent without context, it can look like a missing glyph; explain “building.”
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𗜪 show as a box?
Its font lacks Tangut coverage. As of 2026, Noto Serif Tangut and BabelStone Tangut Yinchuan are documented options for displaying the script.
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How to type or find 𗜪
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- Tangut character for building · Xixia character meaning · Tangut reading leɯ · Tangut input method · Tangut font box
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𗜪\1772ACodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.