What 𗸣 means
By sound, not meaning. Middle Chinese is an older form of Chinese; both characters’ readings are reconstructed as *tok. The Tangut reading of 𗸣 is *tə¹, roughly t plus a short neutral vowel; ¹ marks tone.
The Western Xia state created the Tangut script around 1036 for state and cultural writing. 𗸣 appears in the 12th-century dictionaries Sea of Writing and Homophones. Tangut writing continued after Western Xia fell, with records through 1502.
Historical, scholarly, and neutral.
In Chinese text, do not substitute 德 or 得 for 𗸣.
Who writes 𗸣
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Questions people ask
1Can fonts change how 𗸣 looks?
Yes. Tangut writing has regular, running, and cursive forms, so different fonts may give the character different outlines.
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How to type or find 𗸣
- Search it as
- L0644 · tok · Tangut transliteration
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𗸣\17E23Codes and encoding1 code points
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