Tangut character 18764

𘝤 is a Tangut character glossed with the Chinese character 畦 for a small field plot. It belongs to the script of Western Xia, a medieval state, used for Buddhist, translated, school, and administrative texts.

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What 𘝤 means

A small cultivated plot or garden bed. Chinese 畦 is the Tangut dictionary gloss for 𘝤, meaning a small cultivated plot. Scholars reconstruct its Tangut reading as tśhjɨ̣, specialist notation rather than a pronunciation guide.

Introduced in 1036 for Western Xia state-building and Buddhist work, the script served translations, primers, and administration into the Yuan period. Chinese characters shaped it; neighboring Khitan writing, used by another medieval people, offered a precedent. These links concern the script, not this glyph's ancestry.

Who writes 𘝤

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Questions people ask

Why does 𘝤 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.