What 𗬘 means
It represents a Tangut word glossed as walking or scattering.
A Tangut study reconstructs its reading as lo—an l sound followed by o—and glosses it as “take a walk” or “scatter or sprinkle.” The surrounding Tangut sentence determines which sense fits.
Tangut writing was created under the first Western Xia emperor around 1036 to write the Tangut language. It served government records and Buddhist translations, stayed in use after the Mongol conquest, and the latest known Tangut inscription dates to 1502.
Is 𗬘 Chinese?
No. It belongs to the Tangut script.
Tangut writing drew visual models from Chinese and Khitan, another historical script used in the region, so its square, brush-like forms may look familiar. The scripts are distinct; shape alone cannot tell a reader this character’s meaning.
Historical and scholarly; treat it as a Tangut word when quoting Tangut text.
Its Chinese-like shape does not make it a Chinese character.
Who writes 𗬘
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𗬘 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 𗬘
- Search it as
- lo · Tangut · Xixia · walk · stroll · scatter
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
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