What 𘜍 means
Its dictionary gloss is “surname”; phan is the scholarly reconstructed reading.
Western Xia commissioned Tangut writing in 1036 for official use. It carried Buddhist scriptures, Chinese classics, military works and literature. A Khara-Khoto manuscript probably dates to the 12th or early 13th century.
Tangut writing drew on Chinese writing principles and was historically connected to scripts developed by neighboring Khitan states. It remained in use into the mid-Ming period, then fell out of everyday reading.
Historical and specialist; phan is a scholarly transcription of the reconstructed reading.
A lone message gives no dependable clue to the sender's intent.
Who writes 𘜍
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𘜍 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 𘜍
- Search it as
- phan · surname · Xixia · Western Xia · Tangut script · Tangut font · 1870d
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𘜍\1870D𘜍 is the numeric character reference; display still needs a Tangut font.\U0001870D; a Unicode-aware editor and Tangut font must support it.Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.