What 𘍚 means
Its English gloss is “hot pepper.”
The Unicode label “TANGUT IDEOGRAPH-1835A” identifies this glyph; it does not translate the word.
Wén Hǎi (“Sea of Writing”) is a Tangut dictionary arranged by rhyme; it files the character at 11.112 under Rhyme 5.
Is 𘍚 Chinese?
No. It belongs to the Tangut script.
Tangut script drew on Chinese writing principles but was a distinct system for writing the Tangut language.
Created around 1036 under Western Xia’s first emperor, it served official records, Buddhist translations, and other books. After the state fell, Tangut writing continued in the Yuan and Ming periods before becoming obsolete.
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Who writes 𘍚
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𘍚 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 𘍚
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- U+1835A · 𘍚 · hot pepper · Wenhai · western xia writing · tangut script · tangut ideogram
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𘍚\1835AWhy is 𘍚 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.