What 𗼞 means
It means “government” or “political office.” Tangut was the script used for the Tangut language; kow is a Latin-letter transcription of 𗼞.
On a tax receipt for extra hay dated 1225, 𗼞 marked the government copy; the household receipt bore 𘗠.
The Tangut script was created around 1036 for state-building and Buddhist publishing. It later served Buddhist, secular, and administrative writing through the Yuan and Ming. Its Chinese-style structure followed the Khitan script, another regional writing system; the scripts are distinct.
Formal and administrative in its documented tax-record setting.
Chinese-style structure does not make it Chinese; 𗼞 is Tangut.
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Who writes 𗼞
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𗼞 show as a box?
A font without Tangut support may show a box; a Tangut-supporting font can display 𗼞.
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How to type or find 𗼞
- Also called
- kow
- Search it as
- Tangut government · Western Xia tax receipt · tangut character · western xia writing · tangut script · tangut ideogram
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𗼞\17F1EWhy is 𗼞 a box on my screen?
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Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.