Tangut Ideograph 181AF

𘆯 is a Tangut word for “daughter-in-law.”

Tangut, also called Xixia, was the language of the Western Xia state. The Tangut writing system drew on the structure of Chinese characters, but it represents a different language. Is 𘆯 Chinese? No; it is a Tangut word, not a Chinese character.

The Tangut script was created under the first Western Xia emperor around 1036 for official and cultural writing. It served government, private, and religious texts, including translations from Chinese and Tibetan. After Western Xia fell, Tangut writing continued under the Yuan and Ming dynasties and had become obsolete by the end of the Ming dynasty.