Tangut Character 1850D

𘔍 is one character in Tangut, the writing system for Western Xia’s language. Commissioned in 1036, the script drew inspiration from Chinese character forms but helped distinguish Tangut state identity and support Buddhist translation. An early example is an emperor-sponsored translation of the Buddhist Lotus Sutra from the late 1030s–mid-1040s. Tangut texts and inscriptions continued after Western Xia fell in 1227. The Unicode label is an ID, not this glyph’s word or pronunciation.

Text symbol

What 𘔍 means

𘔍 is the tangut ideograph-1850d. Unicode classifies it as a letter and files it in the Tangut block; this site shelves it under Chinese, Japanese & Korean.

Its appearance depends on the font and text styling.

How it is encoded

𘔍 is a single code point, U1850D. In HTML that is 𘔍, and in CSS \1850D.

Part of collections

𗀀

Tangut Characters List

𗼇

Tangut Script

Who writes 𘔍

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Questions people ask

Why does 𘔍 show as a box on some devices?

Not every system ships a font for the Tangut block. Where none is installed, the character shows as an empty box; adding a font such as Noto fixes it. The character itself is still correct and copies correctly.