U+18083 "𘂃" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+18083 "𘂃" Tangut Ideograph-# is part of the Tangut script, a historical writing system used to document the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty (11th–13th centuries) in what is now northwestern China. This specific ideograph is a logogram that carries a distinct meaning within the Tangut lexicon, representing a word or concept encoded in the script's vast block of over 6,000 characters. The character was added to the Unicode Standard in version 9.0 (2016) as part of a major effort to encode the Tangut repertoire, and its digital inclusion helps preserve and enable study of this unique medieval writing system, which scholars decipher through comparative analysis with Tangut-Chinese bilingual texts and its own complex internal phonetic and semantic structures.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
𘂃 |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
𘂃 |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xF0 0x98 0x82 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0xD820 0xDC83 |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x00018083 |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\ud820\udc83 |
Unicode Properties