What 𘁤 means
It is glossed as “woman.” The Tangut woman glyph 𘁤 appears under that meaning in the 2008 English index to Li Fanwen’s Tangut-Chinese dictionary. “Tangut Ideograph-18064” is a numbering label, not a translation.
Tangut writing was developed for the Tangut language under the Western Xia state in what is now northwestern China. It served state records and translations of Chinese classics, as well as Buddhist works, private writing, inscriptions, and manuscripts. It continued during the Yuan and Ming dynasties and became obsolete as living writing by the end of the Ming. Its square forms resemble Chinese characters, but Tangut is a separate script.
This is a dictionary gloss for a historical written word.
A Chinese-like shape does not make it Chinese writing.
Who writes 𘁤
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𘁤 show as a box?
Font coverage. As of 2026, an app whose active font lacks Tangut glyphs can show a fallback box even when the text is encoded correctly; Noto Serif Tangut is one font with Tangut coverage.
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How to type or find 𘁤
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- Tangut character for woman · Xixia character · Western Xia script · Tangut input method
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𘁤\18064Codes and encoding1 code points
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