What 𗾯 means
Its dictionary gloss is “arrow.”
Created in 1036, the Tangut script supported Western Xia state-building, a Buddhist canon, and a distinct political identity. Later Tangut texts carried translations of Confucian, military, and literary works.
Tangut dictionaries preserve the written sign; its Unicode encoding identifies the character but does not create its lexical gloss.
A historical Tangut word; its meaning is clearest in written context.
A lone 𗾯 is too little to read as an instruction; ask the sender what they mean.
Who writes 𗾯
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𗾯 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.
How to type or find 𗾯
- Search it as
- arrow · Tangut · Western Xia script
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𗾯\17FAFCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.
