What 𗝜 means
Its dictionary gloss is a kind of grass.
A scholarly reconstruction gives its Tangut reading as djɨr². The text glyph displays in fonts with Tangut support.
Introduced around 1036, Tangut writing (the Xixia script) recorded Tangut, the Western Xia state's language, in government, education, and Chinese and Buddhist translations. Texts continued after the state fell in 1227; the script became obsolete by the mid-Ming dynasty in China. Historical books used vertical columns ordered top to bottom and right to left; modern scholarship prints horizontal lines left to right.
A historical Tangut character; its context is Tangut writing and dictionary study.
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Who writes 𗝜
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𗝜 show as a box on some devices?
Not every system ships a font for the Tangut block. Where none is installed, the character shows as an empty box; adding a font such as Noto fixes it. The character itself is still correct and copies correctly.
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How to type or find 𗝜
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- Tangut grass · Xixia script · tangut character · western xia script · chinese character
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𗝜\1775CWhy is 𗝜 a box on my screen?
fsymbols draws rare signs with its own fonts, so they show here even where your device has none. An app or website without such a font shows an empty box (□) or a question mark instead. Turn our fonts off to see each sign as your device draws it by itself: a box here means a box in your chats and documents too.
Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.