What 𗧨 means
Its Unicode name identifies the character, not its Tangut reading.
Tangut, also called Xixia, is a distinct writing system for the Tangut language. Its square forms can resemble Chinese characters, but the resemblance does not make this a Chinese character or give it a Chinese reading.
Li Fanwen’s 2008 Tangut–Chinese Dictionary indexes this character as 3106. That number is a dictionary locator, not a pronunciation or English gloss.
When was the Tangut script used?
It was created about 1036 CE under Western Xia’s first emperor.
Western Xia occupied what is now northwestern China. Tangut writing appears in official records, legal works, Buddhist texts and other writings. After Western Xia fell to the Mongols, the script continued under the Yuan and Ming dynasties, then became obsolete by the end of the Ming dynasty.
Who writes 𗧨
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𗧨 show as a box?
The active font lacks a glyph for this Tangut character. Use a font with Tangut coverage; encoding the text alone cannot make a missing font glyph appear.
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How to type or find 𗧨
- Search it as
- Tangut character · Xixia script · Tangut font · Tangut input
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𗧨\179E8Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.