What 𘙮 means
It names the color white in Tangut. Unicode’s label identifies the character, not its translation.
The Tangut script was created for Western Xia around 1036, for government writing and Buddhist translation. Buddhist writing continued under Yuan and Ming rule. The 1185 woodblock poem confirms this character was in use by then, not its first appearance.
Historical Tangut word; fonts may draw it differently.
Alone, it gives only the gloss “white”; the surrounding message supplies the point.
Who writes 𘙮
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𘙮 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 𘙮
- Search it as
- Tangut white · lew2 · Xixia
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𘙮\1866ECodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.