What 𘖤 means
Li Fanwen’s dictionary glosses it as “clank.”
Its reconstructed Tangut reading is written khie̱j¹.
If it appears as a box, the active font lacks Tangut coverage; the character is unchanged.
Why was Tangut writing created?
It gave Western Xia a script for Tangut.
Tangut writing was created in 1036 under Western Xia emperor Li Yuanhao. It served official documents; a main reason was likely a Tangut collection of Buddhist scriptures.
After Western Xia fell, Tangut writing continued under Yuan and Ming rule in religious texts and inscriptions, then fell out of use by the end of the Ming.
Historical Tangut vocabulary.
Tangut resembles Chinese, but the scripts are separate and unrelated.
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Who writes 𘖤
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𘖤 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 𘖤
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- clank · khie̱j¹ · khiej · xixia character · tangut writing · tangut script · tangut ideogram
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𘖤\185A4Why is 𘖤 a box on my screen?
fsymbols draws rare signs with its own fonts, so they show here even where your device has none. An app or website without such a font shows an empty box (□) or a question mark instead. Turn our fonts off to see each sign as your device draws it by itself: a box here means a box in your chats and documents too.
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A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.