What 𘓲 means
Its best plain-English gloss is “blue-green.”
A Tangut–Chinese dictionary lists 𘓲 as entry 0654 and glosses it “blue and green.” Tangut writing arose under Western Xia rule around 1036 to write the Tangut language. Its square-shaped style shares visual conventions with Chinese and Khitan scripts, but its characters write a different language. The earliest Tangut document is dated 1072; a Liangzhou stele—an upright stone bearing an inscription—followed in 1094. Tangut texts served government, Buddhism, law, and secular learning.
Tangut writing outlived the Western Xia state: a known inscription dates to 1502.
Historical and specialist; a modern message reads as a reference to Tangut text or study.
A box can mean your font lacks Tangut coverage; try a font that supports Tangut.
Who writes 𘓲
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𘓲 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 𘓲
- Search it as
- blue-green · blue and green · Tangut · Tangut script · Xixia · Western Xia · U+184F2
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𘓲\184F2Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.