Tangut Ideograph-187F2

In one Hevajra manuscript, it abbreviates the Sanskrit word vajra.

In a Tangut translation of a Tibetan Buddhist text dated 1258, 𘟲 stands for vajra, a ritual thunderbolt associated with indestructible power. That manuscript context supports this reading; it does not establish a general meaning outside the text.

The Tangut script was created in 1036 under Emperor Li Yuanhao for government, education, and literature, then used to translate Buddhist texts. Its characters follow Chinese-style construction, but Tangut is a distinct language and script. Khitan writing may have influenced it; Chinese writing was its main model.

Its parts spell a word, not draw an object

The character’s components are analyzed as sound signs for the Sanskrit word vajra, rather than as a picture of a thunderbolt.

Tangut writing remained in Buddhist use after the Tangut state ended; a Buddhist inscription dated 1502 is among the script’s later evidence. That survival shows the script continued, not that this character gained a new everyday meaning.