What 𘟀 means
It means “to see.” Scholars write its reconstructed Tangut reading as le²; “to see” is the gloss, not a description of the glyph.
Tangut was the language and script of Western Xia (Xixia), a state alongside Song China. Emperor Li Yuanhao created and disseminated the script in 1036 to support a distinct state identity. Its writing program included a Tangut Buddhist canon and translations of Confucian, military, literary, and other works.
Tangut followed Chinese visual conventions without being derived from Chinese characters. Its creation also followed neighboring Khitan states, which had made scripts of their own earlier. After Western Xia fell, Tangut writing continued under the Yuan and Ming before becoming obsolete by the end of Ming.
How do I type 𘟀?
Use hexadecimal Unicode input. If your input method accepts hexadecimal Unicode values, enter 187C0. A font with Tangut coverage is also needed to display it.
Specialist: the Unicode Standard described modern Tangut interest as chiefly scholarly in 2024.
Its Chinese-inspired look does not make it a Chinese character.
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Questions people ask
2Is 𘟀 Chinese?
No. It belongs to Tangut, a separate script created for the Western Xia state. Its characters follow some Chinese visual conventions, but Tangut is not a set of Han characters.
Why does 𘟀 look different across fonts?
Fonts draw glyphs with different outlines, and historical Tangut sources preserve variant shapes. Unicode can unify such variants as one character, so an outline change alone does not mean a different character.
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𘟀\187C0Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.