What 𗻸 means
A Tangut plant term. Its recorded dictionary meaning is a kind of grass; another dictionary sense links it to herbal medicine.
Tangut writing came into use in 1036 for the language and state of Western Xia. Its forms drew on Chinese writing, but the script wrote Tangut, not Chinese. It appeared in records, inscriptions, printed books, and Buddhist translations. After Western Xia fell in 1227, Tangut writing continued; the latest known example is a Buddhist inscription dated 1502.
Who writes 𗻸
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Questions people ask
1why does 𗻸 show as a box?
A missing-glyph box usually means the font lacks Tangut support. It is a display fallback, not a change in the character's meaning.
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How to type or find 𗻸
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- xixia · western xia · tangut · grass · herb · plant · herbal medicine · tangut grass
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
𗻸CSS
\17EF8Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𗻸
HTML hex
𗻸
CSS content
content: "\17EF8";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%97%BB%B8
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On screen
1
Code points
2
JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.