What 𗻧 means
𗻧 means “barley” in Tangut.
Tangut is a historical language with its own script. In 1036, Tangut writing was disseminated as Western Xia’s state script. It served Buddhist scripture, literature and administration, giving the Tangut state a distinct written identity.
Grain contracts document this crop meaning. In a Tangut lesson, 𗻧 sits beside 𘌋, the word for wheat.
Historical and agricultural; its natural setting is Tangut writing and records.
Alone, it gives little clue that the writer means barley.
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Who writes 𗻧
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1Why does 𗻧 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.
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- 𗻧 · barley · Tangut · Xixia · Tangut barley · Xixia barley · Tangut grain · barley and wheat
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𗻧\17EE7Codes and encoding1 code points
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