What 𗦴 means
It means coal in Tangut. Published references give two different scholarly reconstructions of its old pronunciation, ²mi'₁ and [me]; the difference is about sound, not meaning.
Tangut fonts may draw the character differently. Unicode's chart glyph is a reference form, not a required design.
Why does 𗦴 appear in a Tangut Buddhist manuscript index?
It marks chapters 101–110 in that index. There it works as a chapter-range label rather than as a word in a sentence.
The Tangut script, used to write the Tangut language, was introduced in 1036 for official and cultural work in Western Xia, a historical Tangut state. Chinese writing influenced its structure, but Tangut characters form a distinct script. After Western Xia fell in 1277, Tangut writing survived on later inscriptions before fading from daily use.
Who writes 𗦴
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𗦴 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 𗦴
- Search it as
- Tangut coal character · coal in Tangut · Tangut script · Western Xia script · Xixia · Tangut L3333 · mi · me
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𗦴\179B4Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.