What 𗞮 means
It means “furniture.” A Tangut dictionary index gives the character that English gloss.
Tangut was an extinct language with its own script. Official use began in 1036 under Western Xia emperor Li Yuanhao. The state used it for administration and Buddhist texts. Its forms drew on Chinese writing and on scripts used by the Khitan, another people of the region, but Tangut remained distinct.
After Western Xia fell, Tangut persisted in Buddhist settings: stone pillars dated 1502 preserve the script.
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Who writes 𗞮
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𗞮 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 𗞮
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- furniture · Tangut · Xixia · Tangut character
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𗞮\177AECodes and encoding1 code points
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