What 𘖃 means
Its dictionary gloss is “marriage.”
Around 1036, Li Yuanhao, Western Xia’s first emperor in northwestern China, ordered Tangut script for state-building and Buddhist scripture. Its visual design drew on Chinese writing; earlier Khitan scripts offered a model for a separate native script. Tangut remained distinct and continued into the Yuan and Ming after Western Xia fell.
Historical and specialist; it belongs in Tangut writing or its study.
If it shows as a blank box, the font may lack Tangut glyphs.
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Who writes 𘖃
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𘖃 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.
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How to type or find 𘖃
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- marriage · Tangut · Xixia · Tangut marriage character
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𘖃\18583𘖃; a Tangut-capable font must display it.\u{18583}. This is a code escape, not a keyboard shortcut.Codes and encoding1 code points
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