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𘗽

tangut ideograph-185fd

Tangut character for life

𘗽 means “life” in Tangut. It belongs to a historical writing system used by the Western Xia state and later for Buddhist books.

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What 𘗽 means

It means “life” in Tangut.

Introduced by the Western Xia court around 1036, the Tangut script gave the Tangut language a writing system and marked the court’s claim to a distinct culture. Its forms drew on Chinese writing conventions, but Tangut is a separate script. It appears in official, private, and religious texts; Buddhist books in Tangut were still printed after Western Xia fell in 1227. A Tangut toast places 𘗽 before “ten thousand autumns,” wishing someone a long life.

Questions people ask

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How do you pronounce 𘗽?

Scholars reconstruct its sound from written evidence, and their transcriptions differ. A Latin-letter form is one scholarly reconstruction, not a single settled reading.

How to type 𘗽

Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 185FD, then Alt+X to get 𘗽.
Windows
Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win + .).
macOS
Control+Command+SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “tangut ideograph-185fd”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 185fd, then Enter or Space.
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CSS
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HTML hex
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CSS content
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%F0%98%97%BD
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