Tangut character 1844A

A Tangut dictionary cross-reference links it to “to turn over.”

Li Fanwen’s 2008 Tangut dictionary cross-references this character’s entry 5231 to entry 5172, glossed in its English index as “to turn over.” Those numbers locate dictionary entries; they are not pronunciations.

Is 𘑊 Chinese?

No. It is Tangut, a separate historic script.

The Tangut script was created around 1036 by order of Li Yuanhao, the first emperor of Western Xia, a state in what is now northwestern China. It wrote the Tangut language and helped support a Buddhist canon and a distinct political identity. Its design drew visually and structurally on Chinese writing; the neighboring Khitan people had already created their own scripts for state use.

Tangut texts include Buddhist scriptures, official and private records, and other books. A manuscript found among Khara-khoto’s ruins in Inner Mongolia is undated but thought to be from the 12th or early 13th century. After Western Xia fell, Tangut writing continued during the Yuan and Ming dynasties and became obsolete by the end of the Ming dynasty.