Tangut Character 177CA

𗟊 is a Tangut character from the historic script used by the Western Xia kingdom in today's northwest China. A Tangut text or dictionary gives its reading; scholars study the script through surviving texts.

Text symbol

What 𗟊 means

It represents a Tangut word; the Unicode name only labels its code-point.

Tangut was created under Western Xia's first emperor around 1036. It remained in use during Yuan and Ming rule, becoming obsolete by the end of the Ming dynasty. Rediscovered in the late 19th century, it was largely deciphered through N. A. Nevskij's early 20th-century work. Official, private, and religious texts survive.

It belongs in historical-script study, not ordinary chat shorthand.

Tangut vs Chinese: 𗟊 belongs to a separate script despite the visual resemblance.

Part of collections

𗀀

Tangut Characters List

𗼇

Tangut Script

Who writes 𗟊

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Questions people ask

Why does 𗟊 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.