Tangut character 18627

𘘧 is a character in the Tangut script, developed for the Western Xia state. Tangut characters represented words or parts of words. The Unicode label identifies the encoded character; it does not translate it.

An official document sent to a military inspector, dated 1072, is the earliest transmitted Tangut document identified in scholarship. An inscription dated 1502 shows that the script remained in use after the Western Xia state fell.

The court created and promoted Tangut for state identity and official work, including dealings with neighboring powers and translations of Chinese classics and Buddhist scripture. Later religious and scholarly use reflects a changed setting for the script.

What does 𘘧 mean?

Its Unicode label does not reveal its reading or meaning. Tangut dictionaries give readings and glosses; a reliable gloss for 𘘧 needs a dictionary entry or a translated passage, not a guess from its shape or number.

Tangut was its own language, though its writing was structurally influenced by Chinese and many surviving works translate Chinese or Tibetan texts. In a historical passage, use the context; alone in a modern message, it reads as an archival or specialist character.

How do I type or display 𘘧?

Use Unicode input or a Tangut lookup tool. A Unicode-aware input method can accept U+18627. Tangut dictionaries and input methods may search by reconstructed reading, strokes, components, or Four Corner codes, which index characters by shape.

Display depends on font coverage. If a box or blank appears, the current font lacks a Tangut glyph for this character; the text data can still be intact.