What 𘏍 means
The Unicode label is not a Tangut word or reading. A Tangut dictionary or the surrounding text is needed to identify what this character represents.
Created about 1036 CE under Western Xia’s first emperor, the Tangut script was used to write the Tangut language. It appears in official and private texts, Buddhist scriptures, books, inscriptions, and manuscripts.
Tangut continued under Yuan and Ming rule after Western Xia fell, becoming obsolete by the end of the Ming dynasty. Its Chinese-like shapes belong to a separate script.
Scholarly and archival; on its own, this historical character gives little clue to the writer’s tone.
Without a font that supports Tangut, it may appear as an empty box.
Who writes 𘏍
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𘏍 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 𘏍
- Search it as
- tangut · xixia · tangut glyph · tangut font · tangut input · tangut unicode · tangut box · xixia script
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𘏍\183CDCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.