What 𗞥 means
It is a Tangut character; its label is not a translation. “Tangut ideograph-177A5” identifies the encoded character. It does not tell you how the historical word was pronounced or what it meant.
Why was the Tangut script created?
It served Western Xia government, religion, and culture. The Tangut script was created in 1036 under Emperor Li Yuanhao during Western Xia state-building. It supported official writing and a distinct Tangut identity alongside China’s Song dynasty. A Tangut edition of the Buddhist canon—the collection of Buddhist scriptures—is thought to have been a major aim.
Tangut texts include Buddhist scripture, official records, secular works, and translations from Chinese and Tibetan. Manuscripts and woodblock-printed books from Khara-khoto, an abandoned Tangut city, show the script in use in the 12th or early 13th century.
After the Western Xia period, everyday use faded. The bilingual glossary Pearl in the Palm helped scholars decipher Tangut. The script drew on Chinese character-building and followed an earlier model, the Khitan script; these are connections between writing systems, and Tangut remains distinct from Chinese.
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Who writes 𗞥
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Questions people ask
2Is 𗞥 an emoji?
No. It is a text character; displaying it depends on whether the font includes Tangut coverage.
Is 𗞥 a Chinese character?
No. It belongs to the Tangut script, a separate writing system for the Tangut language. Tangut drew on Chinese ways of building characters, but it is not Chinese writing.
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How to type or find 𗞥
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- tangut script · xixia · tangut dictionary · tangut font · tangut writing · western xia script · three strokes on top
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𗞥\177A5Why is 𗞥 a box on my screen?
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Codes and encoding1 code points
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