What 𘈕 means
It means “to drive away” or “to expel.”
In Tangut writing, 𘈕 is an individual character with that lexical meaning. The script was used for the Tangut language associated with the Western Xia state.
By 1036, an imperial decree had put Tangut writing into use for government records and Buddhist translations. The mid-12th-century Tangut dictionary Sea of Writing lists 𘈕 as entry 55.213; a Unicode note also compares it with related forms in the reference work Homophones.
Why do sources give different readings?
The meaning is stable; its pronunciation is reconstructed.
Scholarly reconstructions write it as śio, śjwo, or shwo. These Latin-letter forms are attempts to recover how an extinct language sounded, not alternate characters or meanings; none is a confirmed modern pronunciation.
Why does 𘈕 show as a box?
The device needs a Tangut-capable font to display it.
The font supplies the character's shape. A browser can use a Tangut web font while a different app falls back to an empty box if that app has no Tangut font.
Historical and specialist; identify it as Tangut in ordinary messages.
A blank square signals missing Tangut font support, not an empty meaning.
Who writes 𘈕
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Questions people ask
1Is 𘈕 Chinese?
No. It belongs to the historical Tangut writing system used for the Tangut language in the Western Xia tradition. Its visual style may recall Chinese writing, but this is a Tangut character.
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How to type or find 𘈕
- Also called
- śio · śjwo · shwo
- Search it as
- Tangut character · Tangut script · Tangut expel · Tangut drive away · Xixia script
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
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