Tangut ideograph 180BC

𘂼 is a Tangut character, but its Unicode inventory name is not a translation and does not supply its word or reading. Tangut writing served government, law, literature, and Buddhist texts in the medieval Western Xia (Xixia) state. If you see a square, the font may lack Tangut coverage.

Text symbol

What 𘂼 means

𘂼 is a Tangut character; its inventory label is not a translation. The glyph and its Unicode name alone do not identify its Tangut word or reading; a Tangut lexicon or the surrounding historical text is needed for that.

The Tangut script emerged with the medieval Western Xia state and served government writing, legal texts, literature, and Buddhist works. It was used to write the Tangut language.

Tangut writing drew on Chinese and Khitan traditions. After the Tangut polity fell, surviving manuscripts, inscriptions, dictionaries, and scholarship kept the script available for study.

Why does 𘂼 show as a square?

A font without Tangut coverage may show a square. 𘂼 is text, not emoji artwork; its visible form comes from a font. A placeholder square means the selected font lacks this glyph, not that the character itself changed.

For hexadecimal Unicode input, enter U+180BC in an input method that accepts code points. If a square remains, use a font with Tangut coverage.

Specialist and archival: it signals Tangut-script or historical-text context.

Do not infer a translation from the Unicode label or the component shapes.