Tangut character for “to make love”

A Tangut dictionary glosses 𗸡 as “to make love”; its Unicode name is only an ID. Tangut writing began in 1036 to write its language, translate Buddhist works, and assert a distinct state identity. Following the Khitans, its neighbors, it borrowed visual principles from Chinese writing but remained a separate script. Its texts included Buddhist and secular works, and writing continued after Western Xia fell in 1227.

Text symbol

What 𗸡 means

𗸡 is the tangut ideograph-17e21. Unicode classifies it as a letter and files it in the Tangut block; this site shelves it under Chinese, Japanese & Korean.

Its appearance depends on the font and text styling.

How it is encoded

𗸡 is a single code point, U17E21. In HTML that is 𗸡, and in CSS \17E21.

Part of collections

𗀀

Tangut Characters List

𗼇

Tangut Script

Who writes 𗸡

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Questions people ask

Why does 𗸡 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.