What 𗫎 means
It means “servant” or “enslaved person.” A 2018 study links it to a Tangut-Chinese dictionary entry.
Is 𗫎 a Chinese character?
No. It is a Tangut word in a distinct script. Tangut was medieval Western Xia’s language in northwest China. Western Xia’s first emperor ordered the script in 1036 for state business; it also carried Buddhist and secular texts.
Tangut forms took cues from Chinese writing but remained distinct. Its rulers followed neighboring Khitan peoples, whose own scripts came a century earlier. After Western Xia fell in 1227, Tangut writing survived into the Yuan and Ming dynasties, then became obsolete by the end of the Ming dynasty. Historical sources show variant Tangut shapes; Unicode groups forms that do not distinguish words as one character.
A historical word with a socially loaded gloss.
Don’t use it as generic Chinese-style decoration: its gloss is “servant” or “enslaved person.”
Who writes 𗫎
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𗫎 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 𗫎
- Search it as
- xixia · servant · slave
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𗫎\17ACECodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.