What 𘇋 means
The Unicode name identifies this character, not its reading or translation.
A Tangut dictionary or the sentence around it supplies its word sense. Tangut was the language written in this historic script.
The script was created under Western Xia’s first emperor around 1036, with visual and structural influence from Chinese writing. After Mongol forces conquered Western Xia, it remained in official, private, and religious texts during the Yuan and Ming dynasties, then fell out of use by the end of the Ming dynasty.
Is 𘇋 Chinese?
No. It belongs to Tangut, a separate script for a different language.
Tangut and Chinese use separate character systems. Though 𘇋 has a square shape, it belongs to Tangut; Chinese reading conventions do not apply.
In a Tangut sentence it serves as writing; sent alone, treat it as a script sample until context arrives.
Its square shape does not make it Chinese or reveal its Tangut word sense.
Who writes 𘇋
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𘇋 show as a box?
The font or app cannot render this character. A font with Tangut coverage can display it. Historical sources show variant glyph shapes; Unicode treats them as one character when a source does not use the forms contrastively.
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How to type or find 𘇋
- Also called
- Tangut character · Xixia character
- Search it as
- Tangut meaning · Tangut font · Tangut dictionary · type Tangut
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𘇋\181CBCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.