What 𘏷 means
A Tangut dictionary glosses 𘏷 as “to divide.”
Created around 1036 for the Tangut language, it served official and cultural life in the medieval Western Xia kingdom of northwestern China, including Buddhist translations.
Chinese writing influenced Tangut’s strokes and components, but it is a separate script. It remained in use under the Yuan and Ming dynasties until the end of the Ming.
What does 𘏷 mean in a message?
Treat a lone send as a reference to Tangut writing.
Its dictionary gloss is “to divide,” but surrounding text supplies the object.
Historical and scholarly in register.
Part of collections
Who writes 𘏷
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𘏷 show as a box on some devices?
Not every system ships a font for the Tangut block. Where none is installed, the character shows as an empty box; adding a font such as Noto fixes it. The character itself is still correct and copies correctly.
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How to type or find 𘏷
- Also called
- dji
- Search it as
- divide · split · xixia
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𘏷\183F7Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.