Tangut ideograph 177EC

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Tangut script was created around 1036 for Western Xia's official and cultural work, including government writing and Buddhist texts. After the state fell, the script continued in Yuan and Ming settings before becoming obsolete. Unicode preserves this older writing in digital text; it did not originate it.

What does 𗟬 mean?

Its documented identification gives a reconstructed reading, not a translation. A scholarly proposal records the reading in technical notation as li̯wẹ² and places 𗟬 in Homophones B at entry 51B44. Homophones B is a Tangut reference that groups characters by pronunciation. A different version, Homophones A, has a postface dated 1132.

A documented component analysis identifies 𘡫 as the left-hand part of 𗟬's written form, 𘦈 as the middle part, and 𘠢 as the right-hand part. Tangut components do not have fixed word definitions: a part can contribute sound or meaning differently across characters. This breakdown cannot translate 𗟬 on its own.