What 𗣧 means
Enter U178E7 in a hexadecimal Unicode input method. It encodes one Tangut character, not a base character plus a combining mark.
If U178E7 appears as a box or fallback mark, the code point can still be correct; your installed font may be missing a usable Tangut glyph.
What does 𗣧 mean in Tangut text?
Its reading depends on the Tangut passage. A study of a Tangut translation of the Buddhist Huayan Sutra transcribes 𗣧 as pho¹, corresponding to 婆, the first character of the Chinese transliteration 婆羅門. That is a reading in this passage, not a universal standalone gloss.
Why was the Tangut script created?
It served the Tangut language and the Western Xia state. Created under the first Western Xia emperor about 1036, the script was used for official and cultural writing. It appears in official, private, and religious texts, including Buddhist translations.
Tangut remained in use after Western Xia fell, then became obsolete.
Historical and specialist; it belongs in Tangut-text, Buddhist-text, or Unicode work.
Do not replace it with 婆: that Chinese character matches one reading in a passage, but it is not the Tangut glyph.
Who writes 𗣧
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1Why does 𗣧 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 𗣧
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- tangut · xixia · u+178e7 · 婆 · 婆羅門 · huayan sutra · brahmin
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𗣧\178E7Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.