What 𗲱 means
A Tangut dictionary entry or surrounding text gives the reading.
Tangut writing arose under Western Xia rule around 1036 for official and cultural work, including Buddhist texts; it continued through the Yuan and Ming dynasties.
Unicode may treat manuscript glyph variants as one character or encode them separately, so a font’s form may not match every historical shape.
Historical Tangut character; its reading depends on Tangut text.
Do not infer its reading from a Chinese-like shape.
Who writes 𗲱
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𗲱 look Chinese?
Tangut writing adopted Chinese character structure but became a distinct script; resemblance alone cannot translate this character.
How to type or find 𗲱
- Search it as
- Tangut character · Xixia script · Tangut glyph
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𗲱\17CB1Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.



