What 𘝍 means
It means a gale, or fierce wind, in Tangut. siej and śiej are scholarly reconstructions of its Tangut reading.
Tangut writing entered official use around 1036 under Western Xia. It served state records and schools; Buddhist texts were translated and printed in it. The earliest known surviving example is an official document from 1072.
Tangut writing drew on Chinese writing but records a different language. Possible influence from Khitan writing is debated. Tangut continued in Buddhist and other religious texts after Western Xia fell.
Historical Tangut vocabulary, encountered in historical and language research.
It is Tangut, not Chinese: the scripts write different languages.
Who writes 𘝍
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𘝍 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 𘝍
- Also called
- siej · śiej
- Search it as
- gale · wind · Tangut · Xixia
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𘝍\1874D𘝍 displays it; a blank or box means the font lacks Tangut glyphs.Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.