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𘎔

tangut ideograph-18394

Tangut character 18394

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Unicode 18.0 labels 𘎔 by code point, not by its Tangut meaning or reading. Western Xia emperor Li Yuanhao ordered Tangut writing in 1036 for state-building and likely Buddhist translation. Tangut script took Chinese visual cues but remained independent, following its Khitan neighbors' century-old scripts. A Tangut manuscript fragment from Khara-Khoto, Inner Mongolia, probably dates to the 12th or early 13th century; writing continued under Yuan and Ming rule.

Text symbol

What 𘎔 means

𘎔 is the tangut ideograph-18394. Unicode classifies it as a letter and files it in the Tangut block; this site shelves it under Chinese, Japanese & Korean.

Its appearance depends on the font and text styling.

How it is encoded

𘎔 is a single code point, U18394. In HTML that is 𘎔, and in CSS \18394.

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Who writes 𘎔

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Questions people ask

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Why does 𘎔 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 or find 𘎔

Search it as
𘎔 · U+18394 · Tangut · Xixia · 西夏
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Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
⎇Alt+XType 18394, then AltX to get 𘎔.
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-18394”.
Linux
⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType 18394, then Enter or Space.
HTML
𘎔
CSS
\18394
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𘎔
HTML hex
𘎔
CSS content
content: "\18394";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%98%8E%94
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.

Families this belongs to

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Chinese, Japanese & Korean121,370 symbols