What 𘇓 means
A Tangut word character, paired with Chinese 士.
Li Fanwen’s dictionary uses 士 as its Chinese gloss. That is a translation aid, not a Chinese name for this glyph or a guarantee of a one-to-one match in every passage.
Is 𘇓 a Chinese character?
No. It belongs to the Tangut script.
Introduced around 1036, Tangut writing gave the Western Xia court a way to record its language. Chinese writing shaped the wider script; scholars also consider influence from writing used by the neighboring Khitan people, but that does not establish a source character for 𘇓.
Western Xia fell in 1227, but Tangut texts continued under Mongol rule, many of them Buddhist.
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Who writes 𘇓
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𘇓 show as a box?
The receiving app likely lacks a font or rendering support for this glyph. A Tangut-capable font may reveal it; this is text, not emoji artwork.
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How to type or find 𘇓
- Search it as
- tangut · xixia · tangraph
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𘇓\181D3Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.