What 𗞹 means
Unicode's label identifies the character, not its Tangut word.
𗞹 belongs to the Tangut script, which resembles Chinese writing but is a distinct writing system. Created under Western Xia's first emperor around 1036 for state use and a collection of Buddhist texts, the script appears in official, private, and religious writing.
A page from a handwritten book found at Khara-khoto, dating to about the 12th century, is early evidence of the script. It dates that surviving page, not the first appearance of this character.
Tangut remained in use after the Mongol conquest, during the Yuan and Ming dynasties. By the end of the Ming it had fallen out of use. Scholars rediscovered the script in the late nineteenth century; early twentieth-century scholarship made it largely readable.
Use it for Tangut study or deliberate historical design; it is not an emoji.
If someone sends it alone, ask for context instead of guessing its meaning.
Who writes 𗞹
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𗞹 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 𗞹
- Search it as
- Tangut · Tangut script · Xixia · Western Xia · 𗞹
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𗞹\177B9Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.