What 𗞖 means
It names a Tangut farming term glossed as “plant early.”
A Tangut–Chinese dictionary reconstructs its reading as phjo̱, an academic spelling of the sound inferred from historical records. It glosses the word with 稙, a Chinese character meaning “plant early”; that is a translation, not an alternate form of 𗞖. Is 𗞖 Chinese? No: it belongs to the separate Tangut script.
The Tangut script was created around 1036 for the Western Xia language and carried official, private, and religious texts. It remained in use through the Yuan and Ming dynasties, becoming obsolete by the end of the Ming dynasty.
Who writes 𗞖
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𗞖 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 𗞖
- Search it as
- Tangut · Xixia · phjo̱ · 稙 · plant early
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𗞖\17796Codes and encoding1 code points
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