U+1827C "𘉼" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+1827C "𘉼" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific glyph from the Tangut script, a historical writing system used for the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty (11th–13th centuries). This character, like all Tangut ideographs, encodes a logogram representing a word or morpheme, and its exact meaning and pronunciation are known only from surviving Tangut dictionaries and manuscripts, many of which were discovered in the ruins of Khara-Khoto. Its inclusion in the Unicode standard under the Tangut block ensures digital preservation and enables modern scholars to electronically encode, search, and analyze the vast corpus of Tangut texts, facilitating ongoing research into this ancient Sino-Tibetan language and culture.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1827C
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	𘉼
HTML Hex Encoding	𘉼
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x98 0x89 0xBC
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD820 0xDE7C
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001827C
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud820\ude7c

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	383.12
kTGT_MergedSrc	L2008-3528