What 𗺞 means
𗺞 is the tangut ideograph-17e9e. Unicode classifies it as a letter and files it in the Tangut block; this site shelves it under Chinese, Japanese & Korean.
Its appearance depends on the font and text styling.
How it is encoded
𗺞 is a single code point, U17E9E. In HTML that is 𗺞, and in CSS \17E9E.
Historical and specialist; use it for Tangut writing, research, or a script sample.
Do not treat its code-point label as a translation.
Who writes 𗺞
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Worth knowing
- Catalogs identify 𗺞 as Li Fanwen dictionary entry 2787 and Clauson entry 2890; those numbers help locate it, but are not readings or meanings.
Questions people ask
1Why does 𗺞 show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
How to type or find 𗺞
- Also called
- Xixia character · Tangut script character
- Search it as
- xixia · western xia · tangut character · tangut script · tangut 17e9e · u+17e9e
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𗺞\17E9ECodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

