id: "Tang" name: "Tangut" historical: true family: "East Asian" summary: "Tangut (Xixia, 𗼇𗟲) is a historical East Asian logo-syllabary, written vertically left-to-right. Was widely used in China in 1036–1502 for the now-extinct Tangut language. Superficially similar to Chinese writing, but not related. Had almost 6,000 characters."