What 𗻱 means
Use Unicode entry or a Tangut input method.
If your system supports Unicode code-point entry, enter U17EF1. A Tangut-capable font is needed to display it; without Tangut font support, an app may show a box.
Rime Xunpin is a specialist Tangut input scheme. As of 2026, it supports reconstructed Latin spelling, stroke sequences, or four-corner codes based on a character's corner strokes.
What does Tangut 17EF1 mean?
A Tangut dictionary glosses its entry as “a kind of grass.”
The Unicode source mapping links this code point to entry 3610 in Li Fanwen's Tangut–Chinese Dictionary. The 2008 English index files entry 3610 under “a kind of grass.”
The entry's reconstructed Tangut reading is written tsewr in scholarly Latin-letter transcription; it is not a Mandarin pronunciation. The strokes are not a picture of grass—the gloss belongs to a Tangut word, not the shape.
Why does Tangut look like Chinese?
It is a separate script shaped in part by Chinese writing.
Emperor Li Yuanhao ordered Tangut writing's creation around 1036 for the Tangut kingdom of Western Xia, as part of building a distinct state identity alongside China's Song dynasty; the script also supported Buddhist translation.
The surviving historical record includes Buddhist scriptures, Chinese works translated into Tangut, legal and economic documents, and pilgrimage inscriptions.
Historical and scholarly; use it in Tangut text, research, or a deliberate reference to the script.
Chinese-looking strokes do not make this a Chinese character or reveal its Tangut word.
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𗻱 show as a box on some devices?
Not every system ships a font for the Tangut block. Where none is installed, the character shows as an empty box; adding a font such as Noto fixes it. The character itself is still correct and copies correctly.
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How to type or find 𗻱
- Search it as
- 𗻱 · Xixia · grass · tsewr · 3610 · Tangut font · Tangut keyboard · western xia writing · tangut script · tangut ideograph
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𗻱\17EF1Why is 𗻱 a box on my screen?
fsymbols draws rare signs with its own fonts, so they show here even where your device has none. An app or website without such a font shows an empty box (□) or a question mark instead. Turn our fonts off to see each sign as your device draws it by itself: a box here means a box in your chats and documents too.
Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.