What 𘑖 means
Its Tangut–Chinese dictionary gloss is “to drill.”
Li Fanwen’s Tangut–Chinese dictionary records this gloss. Tangut is the writing system used by the Western Xia state, which commissioned it around 1036. It served official records, translations, and Buddhist books printed from carved wooden blocks. Tangut writing continued after the state fell; the last known written example is dated 1502.
Historical and specialist; the dictionary gloss is a starting point.
A lone message does not prove the sender means “to drill.”
Who writes 𘑖
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What it means when someone sends it to you
2 readingsThe gloss is “to drill”; use the surrounding sentence to settle the translation.
Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𘑖 look different in different fonts?
Font-dependent. Fonts can draw Tangut characters in different styles; one without Tangut coverage may show a missing-glyph box.
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How to type or find 𘑖
- Search it as
- Tangut · Xixia · drill · drilling
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𘑖\18456Codes and encoding1 code points
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