Tangut character 17C23

It is a character in the Tangut writing system.

A Tangut dictionary tradition from the 12th century records the compound 𗉘𗰣, showing 𗰣 as part of a written word rather than providing a standalone English gloss.

The script was created in 1036 under Tangut emperor Li Yuanhao as part of building the Western Xia state. It drew on visual principles in Chinese writing but did not derive from Chinese; the Khitan had created scripts of their own about a century earlier. Tangut served official writing, a Buddhist canon—a collection of sacred texts—and translations of Chinese works. A manuscript from Khara-khoto, probably from the 12th or early 13th century, shows its literary use. After Western Xia fell in 1227, Tangut continued in Buddhist printing and other texts; ritual pillars preserve a 1502 example.

How do I type 𗰣?

A documented Tangut input method used Four-Corner Numbering.

This dictionary-based lookup system appears in a 2013 Unicode working paper, which also records input and font problems of that period, including missing code assignments, miscoding, and fonts showing the wrong glyph.

The Tangut Yinchuan font records a variant glyph for 𗰣. Different outlines can therefore represent the same base character; compare the encoded character, not just its shape.