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𗢅

tangut ideograph-17885

Tangut character 17885

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𗢅 is a Tangut word glossed “clean.” The gloss alone cannot tell you a sender’s intent.

Text symbol

What 𗢅 means

Tangut names a historical language and its own writing system.

Also called Xixia, Tangut script was created under Western Xia’s first emperor around 1036 to write Tangut, spoken in northwestern China from about the 11th through the 16th century. It survived Western Xia’s fall and remained in use under the Yuan and Ming rulers, becoming obsolete by the end of the Ming. Its characters resemble Chinese writing, but the script is distinct.

Historical written-word register.

Don’t read a bare 𗢅 as a direct message about cleanliness unless the reader knows Tangut.

Who writes 𗢅

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Questions people ask

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Why does 𗢅 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 𗢅

Search it as
𗢅 meaning · Tangut clean · Xixia
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
⎇Alt+XType 17885, then AltX to get 𗢅.
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-17885”.
Linux
⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType 17885, then Enter or Space.
HTML
𗢅
CSS
\17885
Input and display
Use a Tangut input method or character map and a Tangut-capable font. In UTF-16, two code units represent this character; cutting between them breaks it.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𗢅
HTML hex
𗢅
CSS content
content: "\17885";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%97%A2%85
1
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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