Tangut Swallow

𘴇 is the Tangut character for a swallow, the bird. The Western Xia, a medieval state in northwest China, created Tangut writing in 1036 for official correspondence and state identity; the script later carried Buddhist translations and secular books. Its makers drew on Chinese writing and on the example of their neighbors, the Khitan, who had created scripts of their own. Unicode 13.0 separated this swallow entry from “heaven.”