Tangut character 𗼖

It means “good fortune” in Tangut.

𗼖 appears in the 12th-century Sea of Writing, a Tangut dictionary that groups words by rhyme, and in Pearl in the Palm, a Chinese–Tangut word list compiled in 1190. In the pair 𗼖𘎲, 𘎲 means “to increase,” so the phrase means “to increase good fortune.”

Why does 𗼖 look Chinese?

It is Tangut, a separate script shaped by the Chinese writing tradition.

Tangut was created around 1036 for the language of the Western Xia state. It served administration and private writing, and carried translations and printed editions of Buddhist scriptures. After Western Xia fell, people continued using Tangut in later religious and historical texts.

What does 𗼖 mean when someone sends it?

Ask the sender: the historical gloss alone cannot settle the message.

In a quotation or discussion of Tangut, the historical meaning is the useful reading. In a modern message, ask whether the point is the script, a font, or the word’s history. The phrase 𗼖𘎲 has the documented sense “to increase good fortune.”