What 𘐘 means
It means “to carve”; scholars reconstruct its Tangut reading as ku.
This gloss appears in two 12th-century Tangut dictionaries: Sea of Writing (11.152) and Homophones (A 28A27; B2 28B34). Introduced around 1036 for Western Xia, Tangut writing served government, Buddhist texts, and translations.
Tangut writing drew on Chinese writing but was a separate script. After Western Xia, it continued in religious and secular texts.
why is tangut 18418 named by a number?
It is a Unicode identity label, not a Tangut reading.
Unicode’s source records link the character to entry 5217 in Li Fanwen’s 2008 Tangut dictionary.
Who writes 𘐘
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1Questions people ask
1Why does 𘐘 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 𘐘
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- carve in Tangut · ku · Western Xia · Xixia · Wenhai · Homophones
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𘐘\18418Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.