What 𗮥 means
The script was created under Western Xia’s first emperor around 1036 for official and cultural writing. It also carried private and religious texts; printing continued after the Mongol conquest before the script fell out of use.
A box in place of 𗮥 usually means the font lacks a Tangut glyph.
Historical and specialist; suited to Tangut texts or discussion of the script.
Without Tangut context, readers may miss “bottom.”
Who writes 𗮥
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Related characters
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Tangut Component-167
A Tangut radical, used to sort dictionary entries, is the component under which 𗮥 is indexed; it guides lookup, not meaning.
Tangut Component-268
A structural analysis identifies this as 𗮥’s inner component, describing how the character is built rather than giving a separate meaning.
Questions people ask
1Why does 𗮥 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 𗮥
- Search it as
- bottom · Xixia · my4 · Tangut font · Tangut IME · Xixia script
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
𗮥CSS
\17BA5Raycosine Tangut input method
As of 2026, load the dictionary before code input; select 𗮥 from the candidates.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𗮥
HTML hex
𗮥
CSS content
content: "\17BA5";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%97%AE%A5
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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.