What 𘙫 means
Its dictionary entry is the verb “to obstruct.” Li Fanwen’s English index to his Tangut dictionary lists it under that sense; a lone glyph cannot recover a full sentence.
Why was Tangut writing created?
To serve Western Xia administration and culture. Tangut was created around 1036. A document dated around 1070/1071 may be the earliest surviving Tangut writing. Chinese writing influenced its design, but 𘙫 belongs to Tangut. The script later served Buddhist and scholarly writing in the Yuan and Ming.
It reads as historical or specialist Tangut text.
A lone character cannot explain why someone sent it.
Who writes 𘙫
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𘙫 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 𘙫
- Search it as
- tangut · xixia · obstruct · hinder · 1866b
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𘙫\1866BCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.