What 𗲓 means
It is a Tangut verb glossed “to groan.” Li Fanwen’s English index to his Tangut dictionary gives this gloss at entry 1038; Unicode maps the glyph to L2008-1038.
Tangut writing spread around 1036 for the Western Xia state’s official and cultural needs. It appeared in official, private, and religious texts. This glyph is listed at 78.122 in Sea of Writing, a Tangut dictionary. The script remained in use after Western Xia and became obsolete by the end of the Ming dynasty.
Its register is archival: a dictionary gloss from Tangut writing.
Is it Chinese or Tangut? Its shape may look Chinese; the writing is Tangut.
Who writes 𗲓
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𗲓 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 𗲓
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- Tangut groan · Xixia writing · Tangut dictionary
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𗲓\17C93Codes and encoding1 code points
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