Tangut script

This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these messages) You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in Chinese. (August 2020) Click [show] for important translation instructions. Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia. Consider adding a topic to this template: there are already 346 articles in the main category, and specifying|topic= will aid in categorization. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing Chinese Wikipedia article at [[:zh:西夏文]]; see its history for attribution. You may also add the template {{Translated|zh|西夏文}} to the talk page. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation. This article includes a list of general references, but it lacks sufficient corresponding inline citations. Please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations. (January 2022) (Learn how and when to remove this message) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

Tangut
The Art of War written in Tangut
Script type	Logographic
Creator	Yeli Renrong
Time period	1036–1502
Direction	Vertical right-to-left, left-to-right
Languages	Tangut language
Related scripts
Parent systems	Constructed script inspired by Chinese characters Tangut
ISO 15924
ISO 15924	Tang (520), ​Tangut
Unicode
Unicode alias	Tangut
Unicode range	U+17000–U+187FF Tangut U+18D00–U+18D7F Tangut Supplement U+18800–U+18AFF Tangut Components U+16FE0–U+16FFF Ideographic Symbols & Punct.

This article contains Tangut text. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Tangut characters.

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] The Tangut characters are similar in appearance to Chinese characters,^[2] with the same type of strokes, but the methods of forming characters in the Tangut writing system are significantly different from those of forming Chinese characters. As in Chinese calligraphy, regular, running, cursive and seal scripts were used in Tangut writing.