What 𗿝 means
A Tangut input method is needed.
A community Rime layout, a customizable input-method framework, supports phonetic, stroke, and four-corner input. A font with Tangut coverage is also needed to display the character.
What does 𗿝 mean in Tangut?
It means “wild goose” in Tangut.
It writes a Tangut word rather than depicting a bird. The 12th-century Sea of Characters, a Tangut dictionary, analyzes it through 𗿼 (“bird”) on the left and 𗨜 (“longevity”) on the right.
Why was Tangut script created?
It was made for Western Xia’s state and cultural life.
The Tangut script was created under Western Xia’s first emperor around 1036 for state writing. It also appeared in official, private, and religious texts, including Buddhist books and sutras.
Its use continued into the Yuan and Ming periods, with written Tangut still attested in 1502.
Historical and scholarly; this character belongs in Tangut text or a discussion with a gloss.
Add a short gloss if your readers do not read Tangut.
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Who writes 𗿝
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𗿝 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 𗿝
- Search it as
- Tangut wild goose · Xixia script · Tangut input · Rime Xunpin · Tangut font
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𗿝\17FDDCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.