What 𘜠 means
𘜠 is a Tangut character glossed “temporary.”
The Tangut script, also called Xixia script, was created under the first emperor of Western Xia, the Tangut state, about 1036 to write Tangut. It served official, private, and Buddhist texts, continued under the Yuan and Ming after the state fell, and became obsolete by the end of the Ming dynasty.
Tangut and Chinese are separate scripts that share some stroke conventions, but they are not mutually readable. Historical Tangut texts used vertical columns; modern scholarly editions usually set them horizontally from left to right. Some Tangut characters have different written forms across source traditions and fonts while retaining the same encoded identity.
Historical and scholarly; tied to Tangut writing.
Who writes 𘜠
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𘜠 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 𘜠
- Search it as
- Tangut temporary character · Xixia script · Tangut writing direction
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𘜠\18720Codes and encoding1 code points
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