What 𘃦 means
𘃦 is a Tangut character indexed by scholars as L5694.
Its reconstructed reading is written *ly. A Tangut dictionary and the surrounding passage are needed to identify the word it represents.
Why does 𘃦 look Chinese?
Its shape follows a Chinese-like design tradition, but the script is Tangut.
The Tangut script was established under the first Western Xia emperor around 1036 to support Tangut identity and administration. It appeared in official and private writing, Buddhist sutras, inscriptions, and manuscripts.
After Western Xia fell in 1227, Tangut writing continued under Yuan and Ming rule, fading by the end of the Ming dynasty. It developed alongside Khitan and Jurchen scripts. Its Chinese-like forms belong to a siniform tradition—a style with Chinese-like writing. The resemblance does not make Tangut text readable as Chinese or prove that this character descends directly from a Chinese one.
It reads as historical or scholarly material, not everyday chat.
A Chinese-like shape does not make it a Chinese word.
Who writes 𘃦
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𘃦 look different in different fonts?
It can. Tangut sources preserve variant glyph shapes, and Unicode's scholarly decisions sometimes encode different source shapes together or separately. Fonts can therefore draw the same code point differently without changing its encoded identity.
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How to type or find 𘃦
- Also called
- Xixia character 180E6 · Tangut glyph 180E6
- Search it as
- 180e6 · u+180e6 · tangut · xixia · l5694
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𘃦\180E6Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.