What 𘎲 means
It means “increase,” “add,” “augment,” or “benefit.” A surviving Tangut manuscript, catalogue no. Or.12380/1842, pairs it with a pronunciation note in Tibetan script—a sound guide rather than another meaning.
Tangut was the language of the Western Xia state, also called Xixia, and its writing system was modeled on Chinese writing. The script was created under Western Xia’s first emperor around 1036. By the 12th century, rulers used it for official writing and commissioned Buddhist and Chinese texts in Tangut. It remained in use under Yuan and Ming rule, then became obsolete by the end of the Ming dynasty.
Is 𘎲 Chinese?
No. It is Tangut, a separate script modeled on Chinese writing.
“Increase” and “add” are English glosses for a Tangut word, not Chinese characters to substitute for it. Traditional Tangut writing runs top to bottom in columns arranged right to left; scholarly editions often print it left to right.
Why does 𘎲 show as a box?
The font may lack a Tangut glyph for it.
𘎲 is text whose visible shape comes from the font. Without Tangut coverage it may appear as a missing-character box; that box says nothing about the character’s reading.
Historical and scholarly; in an ordinary message, it signals a Tangut text or history reference.
Its glosses include “increase” and “add”; that does not make it a universal plus sign.
Who writes 𘎲
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𘎲 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 𘎲
- Also called
- Tangut L5621 · L5621 · lhu
- Search it as
- xixia · increase · add · augment · benefit
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𘎲\183B2Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.