Tangut character 17D36

𗴶 is a Tangut variant for a word glossed “lined jacket.” Tangut is a distinct language with its own script, inspired by Chinese characters; Western Xia commissioned it around 1036 for government writing and Buddhist texts. This form appears in the Tangut rhyme dictionary Homophones around 1132.

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What 𗴶 means

It is a variant form glossed “lined jacket.”

𗴶 appears in the A edition of Homophones, a Tangut rhyme dictionary that groups characters by sound; its B edition has 𗵩. Nishida’s 1966 dictionary also records 𗴶. The original Unicode chart drawing used 𘝞 at lower right; the form shown by Nishida and the Homophones printings uses 𘝟. A 2019 Unicode technical note records the correction.

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Who writes 𗴶

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Questions people ask

Why does 𗴶 show as a box on some devices?

Not every system ships a font for the Tangut block. Where none is installed, the character shows as an empty box; adding a font such as Noto fixes it. The character itself is still correct and copies correctly.