What 𘕱 means
It points to a Tangut dictionary entry marked “place name.”
Unicode's 2026 Tangut data maps it to Li Fanwen's dictionary; the English index does not identify the place.
Is 𘕱 Chinese or Tangut?
It is Tangut.
Chinese writing influenced Tangut's design; Tangut is a separate script. In the 11th-century Western Xia (Xixia) state, Tangut served official and Buddhist texts. Khitan and Jurchen are other historical scripts.
Historical and specialist: it is mainly encountered in Tangut research, old texts, or font testing.
A box where 𘕱 should be usually means your font lacks Tangut support, not another meaning.
Who writes 𘕱
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𘕱 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 𘕱
- Search it as
- Xixia character · Western Xia writing · Tangut place name · Tangut input · Tangut font
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𘕱\18571Codes and encoding1 code points
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