What 𗱔 means
It has a reconstructed reading, but no settled one-word gloss.
Tangut script was developed around 1036 for the Western Xia state and its Buddhist canon. It drew on Chinese writing principles and nearby Khitan precedents in script-building, but it was a separate script for the Tangut language.
The glyph appears in the 12th-century Pearl in the Palm, a Tangut–Chinese glossary that matches words across the two languages. One proposal transcribes its reconstructed Tangut reading as xã¹ and links it to a Chinese word for “foolish”; another connects the entry to 㘅鐵, “horse’s bit.” The proposals do not settle a single gloss, so the surrounding entry matters.
Who writes 𗱔
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𗱔 appear as a box?
A font without Tangut glyphs may show a box in its place; that is a display problem, not a different character.
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How to type or find 𗱔
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- 17c54 · xixia · western xia · tangut script · tangut font · tangut ime · tangut unicode
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𗱔\17C54Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.