What 𗡪 means
It marks a number's place in an order: first, third, twentieth.
The suffix is transcribed tsew and follows a number: 𘕕𗡪 means “third,” 𗍫𗰗𗡪 “twentieth,” and 𘈩𗡪 “first.”
Tangut writing began under the Western Xia state around 1036 for official and cultural use. Buddhist texts and manuscripts preserve this ordinal ending.
A historical Tangut word ending used in written text.
Its squared look does not make it Chinese: 𗡪 is Tangut writing.
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Who writes 𗡪
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3Questions people ask
1Why does 𗡪 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 𗡪
- Also called
- tsew
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- Tangut ordinal · Tangut suffix · ordinal suffix
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𗡪\1786ACodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

