What 𗣈 means
It describes something leaving.
In 1036, a Tangut ruler commissioned the script for the state and Buddhist canon, a collection of Buddhist scriptures. It drew on Chinese writing and followed earlier scripts of the neighboring Khitan people, while remaining distinct.
Historical and scholarly.
If 𗣈 shows as a square, the app or font may lack Tangut support.
Questions people ask
1Why does 𗣈 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 𗣈
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 178C8, then Alt+X to get 𗣈.
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-178c8”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 178c8, then Enter or Space.
HTML
𗣈CSS
\178C8How to type 𗣈
Use Xunpin, a Tangut scheme for Rime; it supports scholarly Latin reconstruction, stroke search, and a code based on character corners.
Tangut font support
A Tangut font is needed to display it. In 2025, Tangut input guidance warned that some mobile apps might not render it without one.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𗣈
HTML hex
𗣈
CSS content
content: "\178C8";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%97%A3%88
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.