What 𘅼 means
There is no single reliable English gloss. Unicode’s source table links 𘅼 to two entries in Li Fanwen’s Tangut–Chinese dictionary: L0644, glossed with Chinese 材 (“material/timber”), and L2553, glossed with 傴 (“bent/hunchbacked”). These are dictionary glosses, not plug-in translations; the entry and surrounding Tangut sentence decide the reading.
Tangut was the language of Western Xia. Emperor Li Yuanhao ordered its script in 1036 for state-building and Buddhist scriptures. It drew visual and structural inspiration from Chinese writing without deriving from it; earlier Khitan scripts offered a model. A Khara-khoto manuscript fragment, probably from the 12th or early 13th century, preserves Tangut translations of Chinese anecdotes. A font without Tangut support may show a missing-glyph box.
Who writes 𘅼
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𘅼 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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- Tangut 1817C · Xixia character · 𘅼 meaning
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𘅼\1817CCodes and encoding1 code points
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