Tangut script

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The Tangut script is a complex, logographic writing system historically used by the Tangut people of the Western Xia dynasty in northwestern China.

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Label Occurrences
Tangut script canonical 2

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf historical script
writing system
addedToUnicodeVersion Unicode 9.0
associatedDynasty Western Xia NERFINISHED
associatedReligion Buddhism
belongsToCulturalSphere Sinosphere NERFINISHED
characterType logogram
countryOfOrigin China
creator Yeli Renrong NERFINISHED
dateOfFirstAttestation 1036
11th century
dateOfObsolescence 13th century
developedUnder Western Xia dynasty NERFINISHED
hasAlternativeName Hsi-Hsia script NERFINISHED
Xixia script NERFINISHED
hasApproximateNumberOfCharacters 6000
7000
hasCanonicalName Tangut script NERFINISHED
hasComplexity high
hasEncodingStandard Unicode NERFINISHED
hasNotableDictionary Homophones
Mixed Characters
Sea of Characters NERFINISHED
hasNotableManuscriptCorpus Khara-Khoto manuscripts NERFINISHED
hasStrokeBasedStructure true
hasUnicodeBlock Tangut NERFINISHED
Tangut Components NERFINISHED
hasWritingSystemType logosyllabic
influencedBy Chinese script
ISO15924Code Tang
scriptFamily Tangut scripts NERFINISHED
timeOfCreation 11th century
usedBy Tangut people NERFINISHED
usedFor Buddhist texts
administrative documents
dictionaries
inscriptions
usedIn Western Xia dynasty NERFINISHED
usedInRegion Gansu NERFINISHED
Inner Mongolia NERFINISHED
Ningxia NERFINISHED
Shaanxi NERFINISHED
northwestern China
writingDirection left-to-right
writingSystemOf Tangut language NERFINISHED
writingSystemStatus extinct

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Western Xia writingSystem Tangut script