What 𗨖 means
Gauze or sheer silk, by dictionary cross-reference.
A Tangut–Chinese dictionary index links 𗨖 with 紗, the Chinese character for gauze or sheer silk. Tangut script was created about 1036 for the Tangut language of Western Xia, a medieval kingdom in northwestern China. Surviving source collections include material from the late twelfth century and the thirteenth century.
紗 is the Chinese translation in the index; 𗨖 itself is a Tangut character. After 1227, the script continued in official, private, and Buddhist texts into the Yuan and Ming periods.
Archival and specialist; outside a Tangut text, the Chinese translation is only a narrow clue.
𗨖 not showing? The selected font lacks Tangut coverage; its display is font-dependent.
Part of collections
Who writes 𗨖
Loading…
Related characters
1
Questions people ask
1Why does 𗨖 show as a box on some devices?
Not every system ships a font for the Tangut block. Where none is installed, the character shows as an empty box; adding a font such as Noto fixes it. The character itself is still correct and copies correctly.
More like this
8
How to type or find 𗨖
- Search it as
- 𗨖 meaning · Tangut 17A16 · U+17A16 · Tangut character gauze · Tangut character silk · Xixia 17A16
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𗨖\17A16Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.