What 𘅨 means
The historical record gives its reconstructed reading as nga, roughly a nasal sound made at the back of the mouth followed by “a.”
Western Xia’s first emperor commissioned the Tangut script around 1036 CE to write the Tangut language and express state identity. It served official, private, and religious writing. Use continued under the Yuan and Ming dynasties, and the script was obsolete by the end of the Ming dynasty.
Tangut fonts may draw this character’s strokes differently. A different stroke style changes its appearance, not the character itself.
Who writes 𘅨
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𘅨 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 𘅨
- Search it as
- Tangut · Xixia · Tangut script · Xixia script · dysentery · nga
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𘅨\18168Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.