What 𗿲 means
𗿲 is glossed as a kind of bird. The gloss does not name the species. Two scholarly reconstructions of its pronunciation are written śwô and śio.
Tangut rulers commissioned a script for state use around 1036. Its earliest surviving example is an official dispatch from 1072. The script carried government records and translations of Buddhist and Chinese texts. Chinese writing principles influenced its design; whether Khitan writing also influenced it remains debated.
A historical character from Tangut written vocabulary.
It names a bird in Tangut; it is not a drawing of one.
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𗿲 show as a box?
Your device may lack a font with Tangut coverage. Without one, it cannot draw the character and may show a box.
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How to type or find 𗿲
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- tangut · xixia · bird · śwô · śio · tangut font
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
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