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The Tangut script (Tangut: 𗼇𘝞; Chinese: 西夏文; pinyin: Xī Xià Wén; lit. 'Western Xia script') is a logographic writing system, formerly used for writing the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty. According to the latest count, 5863 Tangut characters are known, excluding variants. [1]
New Tangut Std or New Tangut — Tangut font based on characters found in Tangut dictionaries as Sea of Characters (文海), Homophones (同音), etc. (available from ) Tangut TWU — Academia Sinica's remapped Tangut font (available from ) TH-Tshyn-P1 — freeware font of the 字海(叶典) online Chinese character dictionary (available from )
Tangut is a Unicode block containing characters from the Tangut script, which was used for writing the Tangut language spoken by the Tangut people in the Western Xia Empire, and in China during the Yuan dynasty and early Ming dynasty.
Tangut Components is a Unicode block containing components and radicals used in the modern study of the Tangut script. Block. Tangut Components ...
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The Khitan large script and Khitan small script, which in turn influenced the Tangut script and Jurchen script, used characters that superficially resemble Chinese characters, but with the exception of a few loans were constructed using quite different principles. In particular the Khitan small script contained phonetic sub-elements arranged in ...
Mid 14th century Tangut Buddhist text inscribed on the inner wall of the Cloud Platform at Juyong Pass near Beijing. The earliest modern identification of the Tangut script occurred in 1804 when a Chinese scholar called Zhang Shu (Chinese: 張澍; pinyin: Zhāng Shù, 1781–1847) observed that the Chinese text of a Chinese-Tangut bilingual inscription on a stele known as the Liangzhou Stele ...
Version Final code points [a] Count L2 ID WG2 ID Document 9.0: U+16FE0: 1: L2/10-095: N3797, N3797-A, N3797-B: Final proposal for encoding the Tangut script in the SMP of the UCS, 2010-04-05