Tangut character glossed “dim”

𗹋 is a Tangut character glossed “dim” in Li Fanwen’s Tangut-Chinese dictionary; scholars reconstruct its Tangut reading as xwẽ. Created around 1036 for Western Xia state-building and a Tangut Buddhist canon, Tangut writing drew on Chinese character design and neighboring Khitan precedents but remained a separate script; it carried Buddhist and secular texts. The earliest known dated Tangut text may be from 1070/71; the last known Tangut inscription dates to 1502.