What 𗹶 means
A storeyed building. A Tangut pronunciation database reconstructs its reading as du̱¹: a voiced d sound followed by a u vowel made with the tongue root drawn back; the raised ¹ marks Tone 1.
The Unicode label Tangut Ideograph-17E76 is an inventory name, not a translation of the Tangut word.
What history does Tangut writing have?
Western Xia rulers ordered a native Tangut script in 1036. It served state-building, helped mark a distinct identity alongside Song China, and carried a Tangut translation of the Buddhist Canon, a collection of Buddhist sacred texts.
Surviving Tangut writing includes Buddhist books, legal records and law codes, and translations of Chinese classics, military works, and literature. A manuscript fragment from Khara-Khoto probably dates to the 12th or early 13th century; the latest known Tangut inscription is dated 1502.
Chinese and Khitan writing influenced Tangut’s design; Khitan was another historical script used in the region. Tangut remained a separate script that readers could not read as Chinese. For this character, modern scholarship offers a reconstructed reading and a dictionary gloss.
Historical and scholarly; in an everyday message, it needs a gloss or context.
Do not infer a Chinese word from its square shape.
Drift: The pronunciation database labels its reconstruction series preliminary as of early 2025.
Who writes 𗹶
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Questions people ask
2Why might 𗹶 appear as a box?
If the current font lacks Tangut glyphs, it may show a box or fallback mark even though the text contains this character.
Is du̱¹ a Chinese pronunciation?
No. It is a reconstructed Tangut reading in a scholarly transcription, not Mandarin pinyin. The marked vowel is articulated with the tongue root drawn back, and ¹ marks Tone 1.
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How to type or find 𗹶
- Also called
- L2008-2829 · Tangut sign L2008-2829
- Search it as
- Tangut character meaning · du̱¹ · storeyed building · Xixia script
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𗹶\17E76𗹶; display depends on whether the font includes Tangut.\U00017E76.Codes and encoding1 code points
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