What 𗳌 means
It is glossed as “that” in Tangut. Li Fanwen’s English index to a Tangut dictionary lists it as entry 1840.
Created for the Tangut language in Western Xia (Xixia) under its first emperor around 1036, the script served official, private, and religious writing. Chinese writing influenced its design, but Tangut remained distinct. It continued under Yuan and Ming rule after Western Xia fell to the Mongols in 1227, becoming obsolete by the end of the Ming period.
Historical and scholarly; in a modern message, it reads as Tangut text or deliberate historical styling.
Questions people ask
1Why does 𗳌 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.
How to type 𗳌
𗳌\17CCCCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.
