What 𗴩 means
It means “to die” in Tangut. The Unicode name is a label: a Tangut–Chinese dictionary forwards its entry to 𗴨, the entry glossed “to die.”
Tangut was invented for Western Xia (Xixia), an empire in northwestern China; from 1036 it served schools, documents, diplomacy, and Buddhist printing. Mongol conquest ended the state in 1227, yet the writing outlived it; Buddhist pillars dated 1502 are the last known examples.
Who writes 𗴩
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𗴩 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 𗴩
- Search it as
- tangut · xixia · die · death · xixia-script · tangut-script · u+17d29 · 17d29
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
𗴩CSS
\17D29Font
Without a Tangut-capable font, every app shows an empty box.
Code point
Word: enter 17d29 then AltX; many Linux desktops take CtrlShiftU then 17d29.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𗴩
HTML hex
𗴩
CSS content
content: "\17D29";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%97%B4%A9
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On screen
1
Code points
2
JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.