Tangut Ideograph-181C4

𘇄 is a Tangut character used to write the Tangut language.

Unicode’s label identifies the encoded character; it does not translate it. Read 𘇄 in a Tangut word or passage to understand what it says.

When did Tangut writing begin?

It was created for the Tangut language under Western Xia rule.

The Tangut script was created under the first Western Xia emperor around 1036. It served official and private writing, including legal texts, religious books, inscriptions, and manuscripts.

Its forms drew on Chinese writing and Khitan, another historical writing system, but Tangut was a separate script for a different language. The 12th-century dictionary Sea of Writing preserves Tangut characters. After the fall of Western Xia, the script continued in Yuan- and Ming-era religious and inscriptional settings before becoming obsolete.

Why does 𘇄 show as a box?

The font used for it may not include Tangut characters.

𘇄 is text, and the font draws its visible form. A font without Tangut coverage may show a missing-glyph box; another font may draw the same encoded character differently.