What 𘗨 means
“Sisters” is the dictionary gloss.
Is 𘗨 a Chinese character?
No. It belongs to the Tangut script. Western Xia rulers commissioned Tangut writing in 1036–37 for state records and to mark the kingdom as distinct; the earliest surviving example is a dispatch to a military officer dated 1072.
Like Chinese characters, Tangut signs are built from components inside square forms, but they write a different language. A Tangut preface from 1190 says the scripts look different but share roots; influence from earlier Khitan writing, made for a neighboring people, is debated.
After Western Xia fell in 1227, Buddhist works kept Tangut writing in use. Two Buddhist pillars erected in 1502 are the latest datable examples.
Who writes 𘗨
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𘗨 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 𘗨
- Search it as
- sisters · xixia
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𘗨\185E8Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.