Tangut Ideograph 177D7

Its Unicode name labels the glyph; it does not translate its word. Unicode forms this character's name from its code point. A modern Tangut–Chinese dictionary by Lǐ Fànwén lists 𗟗 at index 0271. That number is a lookup handle, not its meaning or pronunciation. Without surrounding Tangut text and a specialist dictionary, leave it untranslated rather than guess from its shape.

The script was created under the first emperor of Western Xia about 1036 to write the Tangut language. It appears in official, private, and religious works, including sutras, inscriptions, and manuscripts. After Western Xia fell, Tangut continued under the Yuan and Ming and became obsolete by the end of the Ming. It was rediscovered in the late 19th century and largely deciphered through scholarship in the early 20th century. These dates describe the script, not a first-attestation date for this exact code point.

Read it as Tangut, not Chinese

Tangut characters can resemble Chinese Han characters, but the writing systems are unrelated. Tangut's use in government and religious texts, followed by later scholarship, describes where the script appeared; it does not prove a change in 𗟗's meaning. Do not substitute a Han character or assume this glyph has a Chinese reading.

A Tangut-capable font—a font containing Tangut glyphs—is needed to display 𗟗. Without one, the renderer may show a missing-glyph box. Different fonts can draw the same encoded character differently. To enter it as text, use a Tangut-aware input method or a character picker that supports the script.