What 𘆽 means
It means “horse”; the surrounding context specifies the sense.
As a Tangut word, it names the animal; in the Chinese cycle of twelve Earthly Branches—the signs paired with zodiac animals—it corresponds to 午, the Horse branch. Tangut writing was created in 1036 under ruler Li Yuanhao to support the state and a literary tradition of its own, including Buddhist texts.
One Tangut manuscript from Khara-Khoto probably dates to the 12th or early 13th century; other surviving works translate Chinese texts. These dates describe the script’s history, not when this character first appeared or when it entered Unicode.
Font-drawn Tangut writing belongs to a historical, specialist script; a gloss such as “horse” helps outside readers.
Without context, a reader may not know it means “horse.”
Questions people ask
1Why does 𘆽 look different in my font?
A font supplies the written shape of Tangut characters, so the typeface and its Tangut font support affect how 𘆽 appears.
How to type 𘆽
𘆽\181BDCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.