Tangut Character 182B5

One scholarly transcription gives its reading as thu¹.

This spelling writes the sound with Latin letters; it is not an English translation. Unicode derives Tangut names from code points, so the number-based label identifies 𘊵 without giving its Tangut word.

Why was the Tangut script created?

To write Tangut for the Western Xia state.

The script was created around 1036 under Western Xia's first emperor. It served official, private, and religious writing, including books, sutras, inscriptions, and manuscripts.

After Western Xia fell to the Mongols, the script remained in use under the Yuan and Ming dynasties, then became obsolete by the Ming's end. Its square forms resemble Chinese writing, but the scripts are unrelated.