What 𗡩 means
Li Fanwen’s 2008 Tangut dictionary glosses it as “grey.”
It is a word in Tangut, Western Xia’s language, not a color icon or emoji reaction.
Is 𗡩 Chinese or Tangut?
It is Tangut, in a separate Chinese-inspired script.
Li Yuanhao, Western Xia’s ruler, introduced the script in 1036 to distinguish the state and translate Buddhist scriptures. It also carried Chinese classics and secular books. Khitan rulers had created scripts about a century earlier; Tangut took Chinese design without descending from Chinese writing.
Why do Tangut charts list different strokes for 𗡩?
A Unicode chart correction changed its filing label.
In Unicode 13.0, its filing label changed from 113.13 to 230.13, sorting it by component and stroke count.
Who writes 𗡩
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𗡩 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 𗡩
- Search it as
- tangut · xixia · grey · gray
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𗡩\17869Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.