Tangut Ideograph-18488

A Tangut dictionary glosses it as “healthy.” The character belongs to Tangut, a historical language written with its own script; its Chinese-style strokes do not make it a Chinese character.

The Tangut script was created in 1036 for the Western Xia state, with Li Yuanhao associated with its introduction and official Yeli Renrong with its development. The script served the state’s autonomy from Song and Khitan powers, as well as administration, teaching, translation, inscriptions, and Buddhist works. Its strokes drew on Chinese writing, but knowing Chinese does not let a reader simply read Tangut. A manuscript dated 1070/1071 may be the earliest surviving dated Tangut writing.

After Western Xia fell in 1227, Tangut writing continued in Yuan documents and Buddhist inscriptions. A Tangut inscription at Juyongguan is dated 1345, and a pillar at Baoding is dated 1502.

How can I show 𘒈 in a font?

A font with Tangut coverage must draw it. To display 𘒈 in a font, choose one that includes Tangut ideographs; a blank box means that font lacks the glyph. Unicode stores the character, while fonts provide its visible design.

If 𘒈 looks different in an older reference, check its component analysis. Unicode’s 2017 correction changed its radical-and-stroke reference from 458.13 to 325.13. A radical is a component used to group characters for dictionary lookup, so older references may file this glyph differently.