What 𗝵 means
It means a stake: a pointed post driven into the ground.
Western Xia ruler Li Yuanhao ordered the script around 1036 for state-building and a Tangut Buddhist Canon, a collection of Buddhist texts.
Tangut forms took visual ideas from Chinese writing without descending from it. Neighboring Khitan rulers had created two state scripts a century earlier; one relied heavily on Chinese writing. Tangut books included Buddhist translations, Confucian classics, military texts and literature.
A Khara-khoto manuscript, probably from the 12th or early 13th century, preserves a secular Chinese text translated into Tangut.
Who writes 𗝵
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𗝵 appear as a box?
Your font may lack Tangut support. The box is a display gap, not a different character.
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𗝵\17775Codes and encoding1 code points
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