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Tangut(encyclopedia)

Tangut (iou)



Tangut noun & adjective. L16.
[App. from Mongolian, from Chinese Dang Xiang (Wade-Giles Tanghsiang).]
Hist.
A. noun. Pl. same, -s. A member of a Tibetan people who inhabited NW China and western Inner Mongolia, and formed an independent kingdom from the late 10th to the mid 13th cent.; the language of this people. L16.
b. adjective. Of or pertaining to this people or their language. L19.