What 𘝔 means
It is the Tangut character glossed as “string.”
A Tangut dictionary index glosses 𘝔 as “string.” The script was made for the Tangut language, with Chinese influence but a distinct writing system.
Li Yuanhao, ruler of Western Xia (Xixia), ordered the script in 1036. The earliest securely dated Tangut document is from 1069 or 1070; undated texts may be older. Tangut writing served official records and Buddhist translations; surviving 12th–13th-century records also include legal texts. Those dates describe the script and corpus, not a dated appearance of 𘝔.
Who writes 𘝔
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𘝔 appear as a box?
The selected font or its fallback lacks a Tangut glyph. Choose one with Tangut support; the character itself is unchanged.
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How to type or find 𘝔
- Search it as
- Tangut · Xixia · string
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𘝔\18754Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.