What 𗩚 means
Its gloss is “put/place/set.” The reconstructed reading is du¹; one Chinese gloss is 置.
During the 11th century, Tangut writing served official and cultural life in Western Xia (Xixia). It drew on Chinese character forms but remained a separate script. The Sea of Characters was a Tangut dictionary from the 12th century.
A 2024 sutra comparison calls one 𗩚 a copying error for 𗪋 (“go”); the revision uses 𗣲 instead. It is a passage-specific correction.
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Who writes 𗩚
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𗩚 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.
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How to type or find 𗩚
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- xixia · du¹ · 置 · western xia writing · tangut script · tangut ideogram · tangut writing
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𗩚\17A5AWhy is 𗩚 a box on my screen?
fsymbols draws rare signs with its own fonts, so they show here even where your device has none. An app or website without such a font shows an empty box (□) or a question mark instead. Turn our fonts off to see each sign as your device draws it by itself: a box here means a box in your chats and documents too.
Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.