U+1821B "𘈛" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+1821B "𘈛" Tangut Ideograph-# is a logogram from the ancient Tangut script, used to write the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty in medieval China. This character represents a specific semantic meaning, though its exact translation is often cataloged by modern scholars under an unknown or placeholder designation. Encoded in the Tangut block of Unicode, it is part of a larger collection of over 6,000 ideographs that were deciphered in the 20th century from texts and inscriptions. The character appears in historical documents such as the Tangut translation of Buddhist sutras and official records, preserved primarily in manuscripts discovered in the Khara Khoto ruins.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1821B
Version Added	9.0
Name	Tangut Ideograph-#
Block	Tangut
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𘈛
HTML Hex Encoding	𘈛
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x98 0x88 0x9B
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD820 0xDE1B
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001821B
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud820\ude1b

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Ideographic
East Asian Width	Wide
Script	Tangut
Script Extensions	Tangut
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
ID Start	Yes
XID Start	Yes
ID Continue	Yes
XID Continue	Yes
Alphabetic	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Upright
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	OLetter
Ideographic	Yes
kTGT_RSUnicode	352.8
kTGT_MergedSrc	L2008-0786