Tangut ideograph 178CA

𗣊 is a character in Tangut, an extinct language of northwestern China. A reconstruction reads 𗣊 as mji²; 𗧦𗣊 means “we” in Tangut. Around 1036, the Western Xia state created Tangut writing for government and Buddhist translation, influenced by Chinese character-making and earlier neighboring Khitan scripts as it marked Tangut identity. After Western Xia fell, Tangut writing continued into the Ming era in Buddhist and translated Chinese texts.

Text symbol

What 𗣊 means

𗣊 is the tangut ideograph-178ca. Unicode classifies it as a letter and files it in the Tangut block; this site shelves it under Chinese, Japanese & Korean.

Its appearance depends on the font and text styling.

How it is encoded

𗣊 is a single code point, U178CA. In HTML that is 𗣊, and in CSS \178CA.

Part of collections

𗀀

Tangut Characters List

𗼇

Tangut Script

Who writes 𗣊

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Questions people ask

Why does 𗣊 show as a box on some devices?

Not every system ships a font for the Tangut block. Where none is installed, the character shows as an empty box; adding a font such as Noto fixes it. The character itself is still correct and copies correctly.