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.
Who writes 𗟊
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𗟊 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 𗟊
- Search it as
- tangut · xixia · 177ca · 𗟊
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𗟊\177CACodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.