Tangut Character

𘏣 is a character in Tangut writing, for the now-extinct Tangut language—not an emoji. It resembles Chinese, but Chinese readers cannot read it as Chinese. Western Xia ruler Li Yuanhao commissioned the script around 1036–37 to mark state identity; the earliest surviving document dates to 1072. Chinese models shaped it, while a link to neighboring Khitan writing remains debated; Tangut inscriptions continued after Western Xia, through 1502.