What 𗼓 means
Its documented gloss belongs to a two-character word. In a Tangut translation of the Analects, a collection of sayings associated with Confucius, 𗼒𗼓 is reconstructed as “grief” or “sadness.” The gloss belongs to the pair; no separate reading for 𗼓 is established.
Tangut (Xixia) writing developed around 1036 for the Western Xia state, drawing on Chinese and Khitan scripts. It served Buddhist translations and the state. Surviving manuscripts include mid-11th-century texts; the latest known inscription is dated 1502. Historical forms and fonts can differ; display requires Tangut font support.
Historical Tangut writing; the documented grief gloss belongs to a word.
Read “grief” as the gloss of 𗼒𗼓, not 𗼓 alone.
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𗼓 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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𗼓\17F13Codes and encoding1 code points
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