What 𘅊 means
It denotes a Tangut surname, reconstructed as lei.
Tangut is a writing system for the now-extinct Tangut language. Its forms were influenced by Chinese and Khitan writing, another historical East Asian script tradition. The surname gloss and reconstructed reading belong to Tangut, not Mandarin; lei is the scholarly Latin-letter transcription, not a Mandarin pronunciation.
Created under Western Xia rule around 1036, Tangut script served state administration and Buddhist translation. The earliest transmitted Tangut document is dated 1072; a known inscription dated 1502 shows that Tangut writing continued after the dynasty. This character's later setting is dictionaries, historical study, and Unicode text.
Why does its outline change between fonts?
A different outline can reflect font design or a recorded correction.
Unicode 17.0, the version of the character standard, says its reference drawings are not mandatory font designs; Tangut sources also preserve variant shapes. A Unicode note dated 2019-12-21 records a glyph-form correction for 𘅊. Compare code point U1814A across fonts: the same character can have different outlines.
Best in Tangut historical or specialist text; alone, it gives little context about the surrounding message.
Its Chinese-influenced outline does not give it a Mandarin reading.
Who writes 𘅊
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𘅊 show as a box?
Your font may lack Tangut coverage. Select a font that includes Tangut; the underlying character can still be U1814A.
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How to type or find 𘅊
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- Tangut surname · Tangut lei · Xixia script · Tangut glyph variants · Tangut font · Tangut input · U+1814A
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𘅊\1814A\u{1814A}; the exact syntax depends on the language.Codes and encoding1 code points
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