What 𗸚 means
Li Fanwen’s Tangut-Chinese dictionary glosses it as “thin.”
The Tangut script was commissioned in 1036 by Western Xia’s emperor for the Tangut language, then promoted as the state’s national script. Its square brush strokes echo Chinese writing, but Tangut reshapes them instead of copying whole Chinese characters. It served government and diplomacy and carried Chinese classics and Buddhist sutras. After Western Xia fell to the Mongols in 1227, use continued under the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty: a collection of Buddhist scriptures was completed in 1302, and a Tangut Buddhist inscription dated 1502 survives.
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Who writes 𗸚
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Questions people ask
1Why is 𗸚 a box?
It’s a font issue: the active font may lack Tangut glyphs. Try one with Tangut support; 𗸚 remains text.
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How to type or find 𗸚
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- xixia script · tangut thin · tangut writing · western xia script · tangut ideogram
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𗸚\17E1AWhy is 𗸚 a box on my screen?
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Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.