What 𘒖 means
Its dictionary gloss is “to gather”; scholars reconstruct its reading as low.
The Tangut script was created for the Tangut language under Western Xia’s first emperor about 1036 CE. It served official, private, and religious writing, including Buddhist texts.
𘒖 is recorded in Sea of Writing, a 12th-century Tangut reference work, and in Homophones, another Tangut lexicon.
Is 𘒖 Chinese or Tangut?
It is Tangut, from a separate script for the Tangut language.
Its square forms can resemble Chinese characters, but the scripts write different languages.
A historical word preserved in the study of Tangut language and writing.
Who writes 𘒖
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𘒖 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 𘒖
- Search it as
- Tangut · Xixia · Tangut script · gather · low
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𘒖\18496Codes and encoding1 code points
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