What 𗼾 means
It is a Tangut character glossed “a place name.”
Li Fanwen’s 2008 Tangut–Chinese dictionary gives it the gloss “a place name.” That describes the character’s lexical role; 𗼾 alone does not identify a particular town. The surrounding Tangut text supplies the location.
Tangut writing was commissioned in 1036 by Western Xia ruler Li Yuanhao for the Tangut language. It served administration and translations, including a Tangut Buddhist canon, while marking a distinct state identity beside Song China. Its creators followed the earlier example of neighboring Khitan scripts. Tangut characters look Chinese-inspired and share some principles of construction, but the script was not derived from Chinese. Tangut books also carried secular Chinese works. The latest known Tangut writing is on Buddhist pillars dated 1502, long after Western Xia fell.
How can I type 𗼾?
Use a Unicode input route that accepts five hexadecimal digits.
macOS Unicode Hex Input stops at four digits; use Character Viewer there.
Historical and scholarly: this is a Tangut-script character, and its gloss alone does not identify a place.
Do not read “a place name” as the name of a particular city.
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Questions people ask
2Why does 𗼾 show as a box?
Your font or app lacks Tangut glyph coverage. The box marks a rendering gap for this character.
Is 𗼾 the name of a city?
Not by itself. The dictionary gloss is “a place name,” but it does not identify a particular city; the surrounding Tangut text supplies the location.
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- Tangut character · Tangut script · Western Xia · Xixia · place name
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𗼾\17F3ECodes and encoding1 code points
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