Tangut character 𘈸

𘈸 means “to spoil a child”—to overindulge them—in Tangut, the language of the Western Xia kingdom. Western Xia commissioned the Tangut script for official use around 1036–1037; its oldest surviving text is a 1072 document. It was used for Buddhist translations and survived Western Xia’s fall in 1227. A Tangut note from 1190 says the Chinese and Tangut scripts look different but share roots; this glyph is Tangut, not Chinese.

Text symbol

What 𘈸 means

𘈸 is the tangut ideograph-18238. Unicode classifies it as a letter and files it in the Tangut block; this site shelves it under Chinese, Japanese & Korean.

Its appearance depends on the font and text styling.

How it is encoded

𘈸 is a single code point, U18238. In HTML that is 𘈸, and in CSS \18238.

Part of collections

𗀀

Tangut Characters List

𗼇

Tangut Script

Who writes 𘈸

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Questions people ask

Why does 𘈸 show as a box on some devices?

Not every system ships a font for the Tangut block. Where none is installed, the character shows as an empty box; adding a font such as Noto fixes it. The character itself is still correct and copies correctly.