What 𘋸 means
Its recorded gloss is “sexual intercourse.”
Tangut writing was created around 1036 for the Western Xia state and used in official, Buddhist, legal, and translated texts; surviving inscriptions reach 1502. Those dates describe the writing system, not this character’s first appearance.
A font-rendered Tangut text character with a sexually explicit historical gloss.
Its documented gloss is “sexual intercourse”; sending it as decoration can read as explicit.
Questions people ask
1Why does 𘋸 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 𘋸
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 182F8, then Alt+X to get 𘋸.
Windows
Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win + .).
macOS
Control+Command+SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “tangut ideograph-182f8”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 182f8, then Enter or Space.
HTML
𘋸CSS
\182F8Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𘋸
HTML hex
𘋸
CSS content
content: "\182F8";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%98%8B%B8
1
On screen
1
Code points
2
JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.