Tangut character 1810C

It is a Tangut character; its label is an identifier, not a gloss. The Unicode name “TANGUT IDEOGRAPH-1810C” is generated from the code point. It identifies the encoded character but gives neither a Tangut reading nor an English translation. To interpret it, look for a documented use in a Tangut text or a Tangut lexicon.

Tangut writing was created around 1036 under the first Western Xia emperor for state administration, to express the state’s identity, and to write a Buddhist canon. It later carried translations and other books as well as religious texts.

Why does 𘄌 look like Chinese?

Tangut is its own script, although its forms draw on Chinese writing. Tangut used Chinese-inspired writing principles. Its Khitan neighbors had also created state scripts for their own languages. Tangut wrote the Tangut language; resemblance does not make its characters interchangeable with Chinese characters.

Manuscripts from Khara-Khoto, probably from the 12th or early 13th century, show Tangut in books and translations. The script continued under the Yuan and Ming after Western Xia fell in 1227; it became obsolete by the end of the Ming dynasty.

In Unicode’s Tangut source chart, 𘤳 is the indexing component under which 𘄌 is grouped—a chart label that helps locate it, not another reading or an alternate form.