What 𗺕 means
It names grass in Tangut. The Li Fanwen Tangut dictionary indexes it as L3255; that number is an entry ID, not a reading.
The Tangut script was created under Western Xia’s first emperor, ruler of a Tangut kingdom, around 1036 for official and cultural writing. It also served private and religious texts and remained in use during the Yuan and Ming periods. An 1185 poem, Ode on Monthly Pleasures, records 𗺕𗻖 as a Tangut word for grass.
It belongs in Tangut-language study or quotations from Western Xia texts.
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Combination ideas
1An attested two-character Tangut word for grass.
Questions people ask
1Why does 𗺕 appear as a box?
A font or app lacks Tangut glyph coverage. It may show a box or leave the spot blank; the encoded character itself is unchanged.
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How to type or find 𗺕
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- L3255 · Tangut · Western Xia · grass · 西夏 · 草
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\17E95Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
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HTML hex
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CSS content
content: "\17E95";
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URL encoded
%F0%97%BA%95
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