Tangut character 𗫢

Use a Tangut input method; four-corner input is one documented route.

That method identifies the character from its four corners, using numbers based on Li Fanwen’s Tangut dictionary. It is a specialist method, so it only helps when your keyboard app includes it.

Without a Tangut-capable font, the character may appear as a missing-glyph box or an incorrect shape. A font with Tangut coverage can fix the display.

What does 𗫢 mean?

Its reconstructed reading gives a sound, not a translation.

A Unicode glyph study writes the reconstructed reading as [bə]: a short b sound followed by an unstressed, neutral vowel. It identifies 𘖫—a Tangut character glossed as “ceremony and propriety,” meaning rules of proper conduct—as the sound element in 𗫢. The reading is a pronunciation clue, not an English definition.

The Tangut script was created around 1036 for the Western Xia state and served official, legal, literary, and religious writing, including Buddhist texts translated into Tangut. A surviving manuscript from the 12th or early 13th century shows this wider use. After the Western Xia fell in 1227, Tangut Buddhist texts and printing continued under later dynasties before the script became obsolete. That history belongs to the script; it does not show that 𗫢 itself changed meaning.