What 𘍞 means
Two documented glosses: “court” and “surrounding.”
In a Western Xia law-code fragment dated 1149–1169, the reconstructed reading *iọ is glossed “court” in place-name material. The mid-12th-century Sea of Characters, a Tangut guide to character construction, gives *iọ as “surrounding” or “enclosing.”
Created around 1036 under Western Xia’s first emperor, the Tangut script served official and cultural writing; religious and private texts used it later too.
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The Unicode name identifies a code point; it does not translate the character.
Who writes 𘍞
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𘍞 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.
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How to type or find 𘍞
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- Tangut · Xixia · Tangut court · Tangut character construction · court · surrounding · iọ · iọ
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𘍞\1835ECodes and encoding1 code points
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