What 𘜊 means
Its English word meaning remains unsettled as of 2026. 𘜊 is one character in Tangut, an independent script for the Tangut language. A catalog label identifies an entry, not a translation. Scholars reconstruct Tangut pronunciations from historical material, but a reading alone does not reveal which English word this character represented.
Is Tangut a Chinese script?
No. Tangut is a separate script. Its square characters resemble Chinese writing, but Tangut is not derived from Chinese. It was created around 1036 under Western Xia’s first emperor to write the Tangut language. It remained in use during the Yuan and Ming dynasties and became obsolete by the end of the Ming dynasty. Tangut texts were rediscovered in the late 19th century, and scholars largely deciphered the script in the early 20th century.
Who writes 𘜊
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𘜊 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 𘜊
- Also called
- L1802 · phjar · phar
- Search it as
- tangut · xixia
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𘜊\1870ACodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.