What 𗠉 means
It names the lips around the mouth.
Unicode’s official name is only a code-point ID, not its Tangut word or reading.
The Tangut script was created around 1036 under Western Xia’s first emperor for the Tangut language. It served official, private, and Buddhist texts and inscriptions. After Mongol conquest in 1227, it remained in Yuan and Ming use before falling out of use.
Is this Chinese or Tangut?
It is Tangut, a separate script.
Square forms can look Chinese, but Tangut writes a different language.
Tangut characters can combine parts that hint at meaning or sound.
Historical and scholarly.
Who writes 𗠉
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𗠉 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 𗠉
- Search it as
- Tangut · Xixia · lips in Tangut · Tangut font · Tangut input · 𗠉
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𗠉\17809Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.