What 𘃑 means
Read 𘃑 as “man”; “male,” “offspring,” or “son” can fit in context.
Li Fanwen’s dictionary gives “man”; linguistic analysis also supports the wider range “male, offspring, son.”
Why was Tangut script created?
It gave the Western Xia state a writing system for rule and learning.
Introduced in 1036, Tangut writing served official records, Buddhist translations, and Chinese classics. Chinese writing was its main model; Khitan influence is possible. Writing continued after the state fell in 1227; a Buddhist pillar from 1502 preserves that later use.
Historical and scholarly; opaque in ordinary chat.
Is 𘃑 a Chinese character? No. It is Tangut, though the Tangut script drew chiefly on Chinese writing.
Who writes 𘃑
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𘃑 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 𘃑
- Search it as
- Tangut man · Tangut son · Xixia · zji
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𘃑\180D1Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.