What 𘓘 means
Li Fanwen’s dictionary glosses 𘓘 as “hot.”
Introduced in Western Xia in 1036 to write Tangut, the script drew on Chinese character forms but remained distinct. Ruler Li Yuanhao asked adviser Yeli Renrong to prepare handwriting models to promote it. Tangut served official, religious, and private texts. An early Khara-Khoto woodblock-printed book is dated 1084.
Historical and specialist; the “hot” gloss needs Tangut context.
Who writes 𘓘
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What it means when someone sends it to you
2 readingsThe “hot” gloss fits if the sender is writing Tangut.
Combination ideas
1The pair represents Chinese yin-yang in a Tangut translation of an ancient military manual.
Questions people ask
1Why does 𘓘 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 𘓘
- Search it as
- hot · heat · yin-yang · yinyang · xixia · western xia
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
𘓘CSS
\184D8Python
In a Unicode string:
\U000184D8.JavaScript
In a Unicode-aware string:
\u{184D8}.Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𘓘
HTML hex
𘓘
CSS content
content: "\184D8";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%98%93%98
1
On screen
1
Code points
2
JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.