What 𘇷 means
A Tangut verb glossed “to boil silk.”
The character’s strokes do not picture the process.
Why did Western Xia create Tangut?
To give the Tangut language a written form.
Created around 1036 under Western Xia’s first emperor, Tangut served government, private, and Buddhist writing. It continued under the Yuan and Ming, becoming obsolete by the end of the Ming dynasty. Scholars rediscovered it in the late 19th century and deciphered it in the early 20th century.
Its square forms resemble Chinese characters, but Tangut is a separate script for another language.
Who writes 𘇷
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𘇷 show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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How to type or find 𘇷
- Search it as
- Tangut 181F7 · boil silk · Xixia
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𘇷\181F7Codes and encoding1 code points
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