Tangut Script

Tangut Reference Pages

• Radical Index to Xia-Han Zidian 《夏漢字典》檢字索引 : Electronic version of the Radical Index to Li Fanwen's Tangut Dictionary (1997 edition) [PDF version]
• English Language Index to Xia-Han Zidian 《夏漢字典》英文檢字索引 : Index to English definitions in Li Fanwen's Tangut Dictionary (2008 edition)
• English definitions in Xia-Han Zidian : Sequential list of English definitions in Li Fanwen's Tangut Dictionary (2008 edition)
• Radical Index to Wenhai Yanjiu 《文海研究》檢字索引 : Electronic version of the Radical Index to the 1983 Study of the Sea of Writing
• Electronic version of the Sea of Writing 《文海》電子版 (skeleton)
• Tangut Manuscripts with Tibetan Phonetic Glosses
• Tangut Radicals : Listing of Tangut radicals used in various reference books
• Documents for the Encoding of Tangut, Jurchen and Khitan
• Preface to Documents from the Black River City held in Russia by Prof. E. I. Kychanov
• Cursive Tangut 西夏文草书
• Examples of Tangut Cursive Characters
• Examples of Tangut huaya 花押
• Listing of characters in Nevsky 1960 (PDF only)
• Index of characters in Nevsky 1960 according to Li Fanwen 2008 numbers (PDF only)
• A Web of Tangut Catalogues (see "Tangut Catalogues" below)
• Ideographic Description Sequences (IDS) for Unicode Tangut characters
• Golden Guide, being a summary of the Tangut lexical verse Grains of Gold Placed in the Palm, with partial translation by Marc Miyake
• Question asked by the Dragon King of the Sea (parallel Tangut and Chinese text of the Sāgara-nāgarāja-paripṛcchā T599)
• Guide to Unicode 13.0 Tangut Disunifications
• Auction Lists for Tangut Items (documenting all known auctions of Tangut documents)
• Daily calendar for the Western Xia (1032–1228) : XixiaCalendar_xlsx.zip or XixiaCalendar_txt.zip

Tangut Text Lookup Tools

These tools allow you to find a particular Tangut character or entry in a photographic image of a page of the text.

• Tongyin Lookup Tool : look up characters in five editions of the Tongyin 同音 "Homophones" by Li Fanwen number (e.g. lfw=2628) or Tongyin-A or Tongyin-B reference (e.g. tya=27B34 or tyb=28A51)
• Wenhai Lookup Tool : look up characters in the Wenhai 文海 "Sea of Writing" by Li Fanwen number (e.g. lfw=2628) or by Level Tone volume reference (e.g. wh=L92.241 or Mixed Category volume reference wh=M19.222)

Tangut Conversion Tools

These tools allow you to convert Tangut text in legacy CJK-mapped encoding to Unicode Tangut.

• XXZT Conversion Tool : Convert Tangut text using the XXZT (西夏字体) font to Unicode Tangut.
• Mojikyo Conversion Tool : Convert Tangut text using the Mojikyo system to Unicode Tangut.

Tangut Catalogues

Outlines of Tangut Catalogues

• Outline of the catalogue of Tangut texts at the Leningrad Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies [now the IOM] (1963), compiled by Z. I. Gorbachëva and E. I. Kychanov — with links to the outline of Kychanov's 1999 catalogue
• Contents of the Tangut Tripitaka (1971), compiled by Eric Grinstead — with links to the outline of Kychanov's 1999 catalogue
• Catalogue of Tangut translations of Buddhist texts (1977), compiled by Nishida Tatsuo — with links to the outlines of the 1963 and 1999 catalogues
• Outline of the catalogue of Tangut Buddhist texts at the Saint Petersburg Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies [now the IOM] (1999), compiled by E. I. Kychanov, with an introductory essay by Nishida Tatsuo, and prepared for publication by Arakawa Shintarō — with links to the outline of the 1963 catalogue and Nishida's catalogue, as well as links to digitized texts on the IDP and EAP websites where available

Indexes to Kychanov's 1999 Catalogue

• Index of Chinese titles (Pinyin order)
• Index of Chinese titles (Palladius order)
• Index of Tangut titles
• Index of Sanskrit titles
• Index of Tibetan titles
• Index of inventory numbers
• Index of pressmarks
• List of images

General IOM Indexes

• Index of Tangut Pressmarks in the IOM — with links to the outlines of the 1963 and 1999 catalogues
• Index of Tangut Inventory Numbers in the IOM — with links to the outlines of the 1963 and 1999 catalogues

General Tangut Indexes

• General Index of Tangut Titles — with links to the outlines of the 1963 and 1999 catalogues, and Nishida's catalogue

Indexes of Online Resources

• Index of digitised Tangut texts in Endangered Archives Project EAP140 — with links to the outline of the 1999 catalogue

Tangut Materials

• Images of texts and objects from the Baisigou Square Pagoda (Baisigou Square Pagoda 拜寺沟方塔 on Wikipedia)
• Pages from the Tangut Tripitaka 西夏文《三藏經》
• Examples of incidental decoration in Tangut woodblock printed texts

Unicode Tangut Fonts

• Tangut Yinchuan (a font covering all Unicode Tangut ideographs and components, based on an original font designed by Prof. Jing Yongshi)
• Babelstone Tangut Wenhai (an incomplete calligraphic style font covering about half of the Unicode Tangut repertoire)

Tangut Books

• Gerard Clauson's Skeleton Tangut (Hsi Hsia) Dictionary. With an Introduction by Imre Galambos. With Editorial notes and an Index by Andrew West. Prepared for publication by Michael Everson. Portlaoise: Evertype, 2016. ISBN 978-1-78201-167-5

Tangut Twitter Posts

• Tangut tweets from BabelStone
• Sea of Tangut Characters (archive of an abandoned project)

Tangut Blog Posts

The following posts in my BabelStone blog relate to the Tangut script:

• Mani Stones in Mani Scripts [2006-11-05]
• Zhida Tongbao [2007-01-10]
• Tangut Coins [2007-01-29]
• Tangut Chess [2008-07-24]
• How Complex is Tangut ? [2009-08-28]
• Untangling the Web of Characters [2010-04-27]
• Prototyping Tangut IMEs, or Why Windows 7 Sucks [2010-05-24]
• The Myth of the Tangut Ritual Language [2011-08-29]
• Diligently Carved in Tangut [2011-10-29]
• Tangut in Tibetan [2011-12-22]
• One to Ten in Tangut and Flute [2012-12-27]
• Today's Date in Old Mandarin, Middle Mongolian, Manchu, Jurchen, Khitan, Khitan and Tangut [2013-03-24]
• A Fragment of Tangut Geography [2013-04-10]
• Two Tangut Families Part 1 : Laosuo [2015-01-11]
• Two Tangut Families Part 2 : Xiaoli Qianbu [2015-01-29]
• Hundred Dharmas of Mahayana [2015-04-21]
• A Web of Tangut Catalogues [2015-04-27]
• Grains of Gold [2015-05-30]
• Ode to the Tangut Tripitaka : Part 1 [2015-07-03]
• Tangut Texts for Sale [2015-08-03]
• Preliminary Analysis of a Newly-Discovered Tangut Wordbook [2015-08-11]
• Rediscovery of a Lost Tangut Manuscript [2018-04-15]
• Tangut Discoveries at the Shanzuigou Caves [2020-07-07]
• Tangut Paizi [2020-11-27]

Diary of a Rambling Antiquarian

The following posts in my BabelStone Diary relate to Western Xia sites and artefacts :

• Bibliothèque nationale de France [24 November 2018]
• Ancient Lotus Pond Revisited [19 September 2017]
• Hongfo Pagoda [30 August 2016]
• Baisikou Twin Pagodas [30 August 2016]
• Western Xia Tombs Revisited [30 August 2016]
• Kharakhoto [25 August 2016]
• Western Xia Tombs [22 August 2016]
• 108 Stupas [19 August 2016]
• Chengtian Pagoda [18 August 2016]
• Ancient Lotus Pond [13 December 2013]
• Cloud Platform at Juyongguan [3 August 2011]

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