Tangut Ideograph 1828E

It marks a Tangut transliteration. A transliteration writes a word or name in another script by its sound. A Tangut dictionary gives this sign’s reconstructed reading in scholarly Latin-letter notation as tśji; the surrounding text identifies the specific word or name.

Tangut writing was created around 1036 for the Western Xia state, Buddhist translation, and a distinct political identity. A document dated 1070/1071 may be the earliest known dated Tangut text. Tangut writing continued after the Western Xia fell in 1227, under later dynasties. The script drew on Chinese forms but wrote a different language.