What 𘋤 means
It is glossed as “blood” in Tangut.
Western Xia’s first emperor, Li Yuanhao, established the Tangut script in 1036 for government and Buddhist translation.
Is 𘋤 Chinese?
No. It belongs to the Tangut script.
In a Buddhist inscription from the 13th century, it appears in a phrase translated “Teacher Bodhisattva Maitreya”; that phrase is not the character’s standalone gloss.
After Western Xia fell, Tangut writing continued under the Yuan and Ming dynasties; the script was rediscovered in the late 19th century.
A historical character for Tangut texts, Buddhist materials, and scholarship.
If it appears as a box or blank, the font may lack Tangut coverage; that does not invalidate the character.
Questions people ask
1Why does 𘋤 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.
How to type 𘋤
𘋤\182E4Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.