What 𘀉 means
Historical Tangut sources gloss it as “Chinese.” A phonological study reconstructs its Tangut reading as xan.
Western Xia was a Tangut kingdom in northwestern China. Its first emperor, Li Yuanhao, introduced the Tangut script around 1036 as part of building the state; court official Yeli Renrong is credited with designing it. It served government and Buddhist texts. This character appears in the mid-12th-century Sea of Writing, a Tangut rhyme dictionary.
Tangut took visual and structural inspiration from Chinese writing but remains a distinct script. Fonts may draw this glyph differently.
Tangut was obsolete by the end of the Ming dynasty; the character reads as an archival or scholarly reference.
Without context, recipients may not recognize the script.
Who writes 𘀉
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𘀉 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 𘀉
- Search it as
- xan · Tangut · Xixia · Chinese
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𘀉\18009Codes and encoding1 code points
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