What 𗮀 means
Its reconstructed reading is bju¹, not a settled English gloss.
Tangut writing served the Western Xia kingdom in government, Buddhist translations, legal texts, and literature. Its surviving written record reaches the 11th century; the latest known Tangut inscription is dated 1502.
Historical and scholarly, not conversational.
If 𗮀 appears as a box, the font lacks Tangut coverage; the character is still in the text.
Who writes 𗮀
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𗮀 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 𗮀
- Search it as
- Tangut script · Xixia script · Western Xia writing · 𗮀 reading · bju Tangut
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
𗮀CSS
\17B80Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𗮀
HTML hex
𗮀
CSS content
content: "\17B80";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%97%AE%80
1
On screen
1
Code points
2
JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.