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Thousands of characters, all invented at once.
Also known as: Xixia script
The script created in the eleventh century for the Tangut language of the Western Xia state.
Writes the Tangut language of the Western Xia state, in around six thousand characters.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Commissioned and produced as a complete system rather than evolving, and deliberately made more complex than Chinese so that it would not be mistaken for it — a script designed to look difficult.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Square characters of dense stroke clusters resembling Chinese characters in construction but sharing none of them.