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𗠣

tangut ideograph-17823

Tangut character

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𗠣 is a Tangut character; bọ² is its reconstructed reading, not an English gloss. The Tangut (Xixia) script served state identity and Buddhist translation, outlasted Western Xia, and survives in dictionaries and scholarship.

Text symbol

What 𗠣 means

It belongs to the Tangut script, which writes the Tangut language.

The Tangut reading bọ² is a scholarly approximation: a b sound followed by an o-like vowel; superscript ² marks tone category 2.

The Xixia script was created around 1036 under Western Xia ruler Li Yuanhao for state-building and Buddhist translation. Its visual forms drew on Chinese writing, but it remained a separate script.

Texts included Buddhist scriptures and Chinese classics, encyclopedias, military works, and literature in translation. Use continued under Yuan and Ming rule; it was obsolete by the end of the Ming dynasty.

Who writes 𗠣

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Questions people ask

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Why does 𗠣 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.

How to type or find 𗠣

Search it as
Tangut script · Xixia script · Tangut meaning · Tangut font
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
⎇Alt+XType 17823, then AltX to get 𗠣.
Windows
⊞Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win .).
macOS
⌃Control+⌘Command+␣SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “tangut ideograph-17823”.
Linux
⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType 17823, then Enter or Space.
HTML
𗠣
CSS
\17823
Python source
To type a Tangut character in Python source, use \U00017823.
Missing glyph
If a Tangut font shows a box, it usually lacks the glyph; try Noto Serif Tangut.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𗠣
HTML hex
𗠣
CSS content
content: "\17823";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%97%A0%A3
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On screen
1
Code points
2
JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

Families this belongs to

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