What 𗸉 means
A horse’s shoulder. This Tangut word names a specific body part.
Li Yuanhao ordered Tangut writing in 1036 to build the Western Xia state and create a Buddhist canon, a collection of sacred texts. It drew on the neighboring Khitan script. Books include Buddhist, legal, and translated Chinese works; a later inscription dates to 1502.
A specific historical word in Tangut vocabulary.
It names the horse’s shoulder, not the whole animal.
Who writes 𗸉
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Questions people ask
1Why can 𗸉 look different across fonts?
A 2025 Unicode review accepts two forms attested in Tangut texts, so fonts may arrange inner parts differently.
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How to type or find 𗸉
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- Tangut horse shoulder · Xixia character · Tangut font
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Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
𗸉CSS
\17E09Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𗸉
HTML hex
𗸉
CSS content
content: "\17E09";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%97%B8%89
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
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UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.