What 𗿰 means
Its Tangut gloss is “steps.”
Scholars reconstruct its reading as *kại², roughly “kai” with rising pitch; * marks a reconstruction and ² the tone. Created around 1036 to support Western Xia rule, the script appears in official, private, and religious texts. Surviving works include a Buddhist text collection in Tangut, translations of Chinese and Tibetan works, and native texts. A manuscript fragment probably dates to the 12th or early 13th century.
Tangut sources show variant glyph outlines. An outline difference alone does not mean a different character.
Historical and scholarly; a character from Tangut written texts.
Who writes 𗿰
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𗿰 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 𗿰
- Search it as
- 𗿰 · Tangut steps · kại · Xixia
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𗿰\17FF0Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.