What 𗨨 means
It means “to circle” in Tangut.
Scholars reconstruct its reading as rʊo, approximately “ruo”; this word is read in Tangut texts, not decoded from the glyph’s strokes.
The script was created around 1036 under Western Xia’s first emperor for state-building and distinction from Song China. Modeled on Chinese and Khitan writing, it recorded Buddhist, legal, and other Tangut texts. It remained in manuscripts and inscriptions after the dynasty fell; the latest known inscription is dated 1502.
Historical Tangut vocabulary; the reading is reconstructed.
Chinese-script influence does not make 𗨨 a Chinese character.
Who writes 𗨨
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𗨨 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 𗨨
- Search it as
- Tangut circle · Tangut circling · Xixia · rʊo
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𗨨\17A28Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.