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𘆮

tangut ideograph-181ae

Tangut Character 181AE

𘆮 is a Tangut character from Xixia, a script shaped by Chinese writing and created around 1036 under Western Xia’s first emperor to write Tangut. “TANGUT IDEOGRAPH-181AE” is an inventory label, not a translation. It endured the Mongol conquest through the Yuan and Ming, fell out of use by the end of the Ming dynasty, then was rediscovered in the late 19th century and largely deciphered in the early 20th century.

Text symbol

Search it as: 𘆮 meaning · Tangut 181AE · Xixia script · Tangut font
Shows up in: Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What 𘆮 means

It can change the drawing, not the encoded character. Tangut sources preserve variant glyph shapes, so two fonts can draw the same encoded character differently.

Questions people ask

Why does 𘆮 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.

How to type 𘆮

Windows (Word)

Alt+XType 181AE, then Alt+X to get 𘆮.

Windows

Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win + .).

macOS

Control+Command+SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “tangut ideograph-181ae”.

Linux

Ctrl+Shift+UType 181ae, then Enter or Space.

HTML

𘆮

CSS

\181AE

Unicode input

Use a Unicode input tool for U+181AE; a Tangut-capable font is needed to display it.

Codes and encoding1 code points

HTML decimal

𘆮

HTML hex

𘆮

CSS content

content: "\181AE";

Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.

URL encoded

%F0%98%86%AE

On screen

Code points

JS .length

UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

Families this belongs to

Chinese, Japanese & Korean121,370 symbols

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