What 𘑴 means
It is glossed as “brittle” or “crisp.” Li Fanwen’s index lists it as L1184 and reconstructs lja, roughly one syllable: l, the y-sound in “yes,” then a.
Created around 1036 for Xixia’s official language, Tangut writing marked Tangut identity apart from Chinese. Surviving texts include government, private, and Buddhist works.
Use continued through the Yuan and Ming periods before the script fell out of use. Rediscovered in the late nineteenth century, it became a subject of study.
Historical and specialist; outside Tangut study, it reads as a script sample.
Who writes 𘑴
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𘑴 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 𘑴
- Also called
- L1184
- Search it as
- tangut · xixia · brittle · crisp
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𘑴\18474Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.