What 𘇬 means
The recorded gloss is “plan, scheme, or way.”
Li Fanwen’s Tangut–Chinese Dictionary indexes 𘇬 as L1557, number 2384, and gives the Chinese character 猷 as its gloss. That is a translation link: 猷 helps explain the Tangut entry, but it is not another spelling of 𘇬.
Why was Tangut writing created?
It served Tangut state and literary life.
Historical accounts date its creation to 1036, under Li Yuanhao, ruler of the Tangut-led Western Xia state. The script helped distinguish the state from Song China and supported a Tangut Buddhist canon, a collection of Buddhist texts.
Tangut characters drew on Chinese strokes and character-building principles, but the script represented Tangut, not Chinese. Khitan writing offered another regional example of scripts made for state use. Surviving Tangut texts include Buddhist, legal, administrative, classical, military, and literary works; use continued into 1502.
How do I type 𘇬?
In HTML, use the hexadecimal reference 𘇬.
In HTML source, 𘇬 is a hexadecimal numeric character reference. The browser turns it into the character when it reads the page; plain-text fields do not necessarily interpret it.
Rendering is font-dependent: Tangut fonts can differ in stroke detail, and a font without Tangut coverage may show a box. Those display differences do not change the character encoded in the text.
Scholarly and archival; a short translation makes its dictionary gloss readable outside Tangut contexts.
Chinese 猷 is a gloss, not a replacement for 𘇬.
Who writes 𘇬
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What it means when someone sends it to you
3 readingsAn unfamiliar Tangut character; a label or translation supplies its meaning.
Related characters
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Questions people ask
2Is 𘇬 Chinese?
No. It belongs to Tangut writing. Chinese 猷 appears as its dictionary gloss, not as its identity or a substitute.
Why does 𘇬 look different in different fonts?
Tangut fonts can draw the same encoded character with different stroke details. A font without Tangut support may show a box instead.
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How to type or find 𘇬
- Also called
- L1557 · RS341.09
- Search it as
- 181ec · xixia · tangut character
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𘇬\181EC𘇬; the browser reads this hexadecimal reference as the character.Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.