Tangut Ideograph-187E2

It is a Tangut verb glossed as “to mate.”

Tangut reference works index it as L0373. The gloss gives its basic lexical meaning; surrounding words determine how it translates in a sentence.

Is 𘟢 a Chinese character?

No. It is Tangut, from the separate Xixia writing system.

The Tangut script was created under the first emperor of Western Xia, a historical state also called Xixia, around 1036 for the Tangut language, government writing, and translations of Buddhist and Chinese classical works. It appeared in books, Buddhist scriptures, inscriptions, manuscripts, and private texts. After Western Xia fell in 1227, Tangut writing continued under Yuan and Ming rule and became obsolete by the end of the Ming dynasty.

Scholars rediscovered the script in the late 19th century and largely deciphered it in the early 20th century. Chinese writing influenced its square layout and component-based design, but Tangut is a separate script: its characters are not Chinese characters, and the two systems are not mutually readable.

How do I type 𘟢?

Use an input method that supports Tangut.

Typing the character’s Unicode name will not produce it. Tangut schemes built for RIME, an input-method framework, may offer dictionary lookup, component, serial-order, four-corner, or reconstructed phonetic input.

Without a Tangut font, the character may appear as an empty box. Different Tangut fonts can give it different stylistic shapes; the display changes, not the character’s identity.