What 𗦛 means
Li Fanwen’s English index glosses it “to survey.”
His 2008 Tangut–Chinese dictionary indexes this form as L2008-2492.
Is 𗦛 a Chinese character?
No. It belongs to the Tangut script.
The script was commissioned in 1036 for Western Xia state use. It served official writing, Buddhist texts, and translations from Chinese; Buddhist pillars dated 1502 show Tangut writing persisted after the state fell. The script drew on Chinese writing forms, but it records Tangut, a separate language.
Questions people ask
1Why does 𗦛 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 𗦛
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 1799B, then Alt+X to get 𗦛.
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-1799b”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 1799b, then Enter or Space.
HTML
𗦛CSS
\1799BTangut lookup
Use a Tangut reference tool to search by character, reading, dictionary number, or Four-Corner code, an index based on a character’s corner shapes. If 𗦛 appears as a box, use a font with Tangut support.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𗦛
HTML hex
𗦛
CSS content
content: "\1799B";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%97%A6%9B
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.