What 𘟴 means
No reliable standalone gloss is attached to it.
The recorded occurrence is on leaf 2A, column 5 of the text catalogued as IOM Tang. 27, a White Cloud Sect collection printed with movable type during Western Xia. The 2017 encoding proposal gives no gloss and notes no published discussion of the one-off characters in that text.
Tangut writing served Western Xia administration and Buddhist translations and drew on Chinese and Khitan writing traditions. Those script-level connections cannot establish a reading for 𘟴 itself.
Historical and specialist: use it when discussing Tangut writing, Western Xia texts, or this character itself.
A shape that recalls Chinese writing still has no known Chinese reading.
Who writes 𘟴
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Questions people ask
1Why does Tangut Ideograph-187F4 show as a box?
The font lacks a drawing for this Tangut character, so the display uses a box as a placeholder.
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How to type or find 𘟴
- Search it as
- 187f4 · Tangut 187F4 · Tangut character · Tangut script · Xixia script · Western Xia writing
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𘟴\187F4Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.