What 𗼀 means
It means “hear” in Tangut. Its written structure combines elements for a person and an ear, reflecting that meaning.
Tangut developed under the Western Xia kingdom for official and cultural writing. After the Mongol conquest, it fell out of daily use but survived in dictionaries and Buddhist texts. Li Fanwen’s Tangut dictionary indexes 𗼀 as L3152; Clauson’s index lists it as #4705.
Historical and scholarly in register.
A box is not a second meaning of 𗼀.
Who writes 𗼀
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𗼀 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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How to type or find 𗼀
- Search it as
- tangut · xixia · hear · listen · L3152
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
𗼀CSS
\17F00Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𗼀
HTML hex
𗼀
CSS content
content: "\17F00";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%97%BC%80
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
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UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.