Tangut Ideograph 178F0

Enter U+178F0 through Unicode code-point input, if your editor supports it.

This Tangut glyph is in a supplementary Unicode range that older input tools may not support. If it appears as a box, the selected font lacks Tangut coverage; the character itself has not changed.

What does 𗣰 mean?

It is a Tangut character; its Unicode label is not a translation.

Unicode maps 𗣰 to entry L2008-3276 in Li Fanwen's 2008 Tangut-Chinese Dictionary, a scholarly reference trail for finding a gloss. The code-point label identifies the character but does not give its Tangut word or pronunciation.

Tangut script entered official use around 1036. Government schools taught it; officials used it for records and diplomacy, and it carried Buddhist translations and block-printed books. After Western Xia fell in 1227, Tangut writing continued for centuries. A pair of dhāraṇī pillars, stone monuments bearing Buddhist texts, from 1502 are cited as the latest known examples. Tangut writing drew influence from Chinese writing but remained a distinct script, alongside the Khitan and Jurchen scripts of other medieval states.

What does 𘢌 have to do with 𗣰?

𘢌 is a lookup component associated with 𗣰.

Unicode indexes 𗣰 under component 141.9 and encodes 𘢌 as Tangut Component-141. A component is a lookup unit used to classify Tangut characters; this one does not provide a reading or translation for 𗣰.