What 𗼣 means
In Tangut, it names asking or a question.
Where did the Tangut script come from?
It was created for the Tangut language under Western Xia.
Tangut was spoken in northwestern China; its square characters combine small parts like Chinese writing. Devised around 1036 under Western Xia’s first emperor, the script survived Mongol conquest through Yuan and Ming rule, then became obsolete. Texts include Buddhist, Chinese, Tibetan, Confucian, military, and literary works.
A historical Tangut word from dictionaries and scholarship.
Is 𗼣 Chinese? No: it is Tangut; 問 is a Chinese dictionary gloss.
Who writes 𗼣
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𗼣 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 𗼣
- Also called
- Tangut 17F23 · L2008-2340 · LFW 2340
- Search it as
- ask Tangut · Tangut question · Xixia script · Tangut font
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𗼣\17F23Codes and encoding1 code points
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