What 𘁎 means
It is a Tangut character with a place-name gloss.
A 2019 Unicode proposal gives the reconstructed reading thi and the gloss “a place name.” That points to its role, but does not translate every passage; the surrounding name or text supplies the context.
Around 1036, the first emperor of Western Xia, a Tangut-led state, sponsored the Tangut script for government and Buddhist translation. Tangut texts survive from about the 11th century onward. Writing continued during the Yuan and Ming periods, then became obsolete by the end of the Ming dynasty; it shifted from government and religious writing to a subject of later study.
Why does 𘁎 show as a box?
A box is the software’s missing-character marker.
𘁎 is drawn by the active font. If no available font has Tangut coverage, an app may show an empty box or fallback mark; the underlying character stays the same.
A Tangut input method for Rime, a keyboard framework, offers reconstructed-reading, stroke, and four-corner modes. Its phonetic mode accepts the reconstructed spelling thi; the documented setup also needs a Tangut-capable font.
Historical and specialist: it belongs in Tangut study, records, or manuscripts; unexplained in everyday chat, it gives readers little to go on.
Without the surrounding text, its place-name gloss does not identify the place.
Who writes 𘁎
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𘁎 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 𘁎
- Search it as
- Tangut · Western Xia · Tangut place name · thi · Tangut font · Rime Tangut input
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𘁎\1804ECodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.