What 𗹱 means
A Tangut dictionary records its reading as xew. Its English index glosses the word as “a kind of grass,” without naming a species. xew is a scholarly spelling of Tangut sound, not an English word.
In 1036, the Tangut-ruled Western Xia state ordered a script for its own language as a mark of independence. Chinese writing shaped its square forms, but 𗹱 records a Tangut word. After the Mongol conquest of Western Xia in 1227, Tangut people in Baoding, northern China, used the script for Buddhist prayer inscriptions; two stone pillars there date to 1502.
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Who writes 𗹱
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𗹱 show as a box?
A missing-glyph box usually means the selected font lacks Tangut coverage. Try a font that supports Tangut; the text still contains 𗹱.
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- tangut · xixia · xew · grass
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𗹱\17E71Codes and encoding1 code points
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