Tangut Bird Character

𗿨 is a Tangut bird character; a dictionary gives only “a kind of bird.” Western Xia (Xixia), a northwest Chinese state, commissioned Tangut writing around 1036 to write its language, compile Buddhist scriptures, and distinguish itself from China’s Song dynasty. Chinese writing shaped its design; influence from neighboring Khitan writing is debated. Tangut Buddhist texts continued after Western Xia’s fall in 1227; a 1502 inscription is among the latest known.

Text symbol

What 𗿨 means

𗿨 is the tangut ideograph-17fe8. Unicode classifies it as a letter and files it in the Tangut block; this site shelves it under Chinese, Japanese & Korean.

Its appearance depends on the font and text styling.

How it is encoded

𗿨 is a single code point, U17FE8. In HTML that is 𗿨, and in CSS \17FE8.

Part of collections

𗀀

Tangut Characters List

𗼇

Tangut Script

Who writes 𗿨

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Questions people ask

Why does 𗿨 show as a box on some devices?

Not every system ships a font for the Tangut block. Where none is installed, the character shows as an empty box; adding a font such as Noto fixes it. The character itself is still correct and copies correctly.