What 𗦺 means
It has a Tangut word meaning, not a free-standing chat meaning. A Tangut dictionary reconstructs its reading as phã and links its Chinese gloss, 劭, to “fine” or “lofty.” Those clues apply to a word in the historical language, not a context-free symbol.
The Tangut script was created in 1036 under Emperor Li Yuanhao as a state-building project. Its aims included producing a Tangut Buddhist canon—a collection of Buddhist scriptures—and distinguishing the kingdom from Song China. Tangut characters drew on Chinese ways of forming characters and followed the earlier example of the neighboring Khitan people’s writing system, but they were not Chinese characters.
Manuscripts from Khara-khoto, a ruined city in Inner Mongolia, show Tangut used for Buddhist texts and Chinese classics, encyclopedias, military works, and literature. One fragment probably dates to the 12th or early 13th century. A household register records 𗦺 at the start of a personal name glossed “the one with a donkey.”
How do I type 𗦺?
Use a Tangut lookup or a Unicode-aware editor. Ordinary Latin and Chinese keyboards have no direct key for it. Tangut lookup tools can find the character by Li Fanwen reference L2651; a Unicode-aware editor may accept U179BA as hexadecimal input.
Scholarly and historical; using it signals interest in Tangut writing rather than an everyday chat tone.
Chinese influence does not make it a Chinese character.
Who writes 𗦺
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Questions people ask
2Why does 𗦺 show as a box?
The selected font may lack Tangut coverage. The character can be encoded correctly while the font falls back to a missing-glyph box; try a font that supports Tangut.
Is 𗦺 a Chinese character?
No. It belongs to the Tangut script. Tangut writing drew on Chinese character-forming principles, but the two scripts are distinct.
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- Also called
- Tangut character · Xixia character · Western Xia character
- Search it as
- tangut · xixia · western xia · tangut glyph · tangut font · tangut dictionary · tangut lookup · phã
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𗦺\179BACodes and encoding1 code points
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