Tangut Ideograph 17DA5

𗶥 is the Tangut character for “collapse.” Tangut writing emerged around 1036 for Western Xia (Xixia) state-building and Buddhist translation; the earliest dated survivor may be a document from the early 1070s.

Text symbol

What 𗶥 means

It means “to collapse” in historical Tangut.

This character has a reading reconstructed by scholars as kêɯ. The Tangut script served Western Xia laws and official records, as well as Buddhist works translated from Chinese and Tibetan.

Tangut is a separate script whose design drew on Chinese and Khitan writing systems. A box can appear when the device or browser lacks a Tangut font.

Historical writing encountered in Tangut texts and scholarship.

Part of collections

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Tangut Characters List

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Tangut Script

Who writes 𗶥

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Questions people ask

Why does 𗶥 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.