What 𘍏 means
The Wénhǎi gives it the gloss “greyish white.”
The Wénhǎi (“Sea of Writing”) is a Tangut dictionary. Tangut writing emerged in Western Xia around 1036–1037 for government and religious texts, including Buddhist translations. It continued after the state fell; the latest known inscription dates to 1502.
Why can 𘍏 vary across fonts?
Tangut typefaces can draw different shapes.
Before Unicode, some Tangut fonts stored glyphs at incompatible code points for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean text (CJK), so their text may not be 𘍏.
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𘍏 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.
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How to type or find 𘍏
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- greyish white · Tangut font · Tangut input · Tangut character · Western Xia writing · Tangut script · Tangut ideogram
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𘍏\1834FWhy is 𘍏 a box on my screen?
fsymbols draws rare signs with its own fonts, so they show here even where your device has none. An app or website without such a font shows an empty box (□) or a question mark instead. Turn our fonts off to see each sign as your device draws it by itself: a box here means a box in your chats and documents too.
Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.