Tangut character 𗦑

A short translation is “extravagant” or “excessive.”

Li Fanwen’s dictionary of Tangut lists 𗦑 as entry 2504. A dictionary index gives its reconstructed reading in scholarly Latin-letter transcription as xu and links it to Chinese 侈. In Chinese, 侈 can mean extravagance, waste, excess, or boastful speech; here it is a translation aid, not an interchangeable Chinese form of 𗦑.

Tangut writing was created in 1036 for the Western Xia, a kingdom ruled by Tangut people in what is now northwestern China. Its uses included recording events, translating Chinese classics, and building a Buddhist canon—a collection of Buddhist scriptures. Tangut writing drew on Chinese writing and developed in a region where the Khitan, another people, used their own script. A bilingual Tangut-Chinese inscription from 1094 and Tangut texts written after the Western Xia fell in 1227 show that the script continued beyond the state’s fall.

Does 𗦑 always mean “extravagant”?

No; the characters around it can change the translation.

An attested pair, 𗦑𘆈, is translated as “man.” That translation belongs to the two-character expression; it does not establish “man” as a standalone meaning for 𗦑. Keep both characters together when reading it.