What 𗮐 means
It is a Tangut sign; its Unicode label is not a translation.
Characters in the historic Tangut script can represent words or meaningful parts of words.
When was Tangut writing created?
It was created for Western Xia around 1036.
Western Xia was a kingdom in northwest China. Tangut writing drew on Chinese and Khitan models, but recorded Tangut. It served laws and Buddhist texts and continued after the state fell; the latest known inscription is dated 1502.
Is 𗮑 another form of 𗮐?
Yes. Unicode records 𗮑 as a glyph variant of 𗮐.
Who writes 𗮐
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𗮐 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.
How to type or find 𗮐
- Search it as
- Tangut script · Xixia writing · Tangut character
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𗮐\17B90Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

