What 𘗕 means
It means living or staying somewhere.
Chinese 居 is its gloss, “to reside”; scholars write the reconstructed Tangut reading as zher₂.
Created around 1036–1037 for the Western Xia state, Tangut served Buddhist, official, and legal writing. A surviving inscription from 1502 shows its use centuries later.
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Who writes 𘗕
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𘗕 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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- zher · dwell · reside · 居 · western xia writing · tangut ideograph · tangut script
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𘗕\185D5Why is 𘗕 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.