U+1837E "𘍾" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𘍾
U+1837E "𘍾" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific logographic symbol used in the Tangut script, which was historically employed to write the extinct Tangut language during the Western Xia dynasty in northwestern China around the 11th to 14th centuries. This character, like all Tangut ideographs, represents a morpheme or word and is one of thousands of intricate glyphs that were deciphered in part by scholars from rare manuscripts. Its precise meaning remains uncertain, as only a portion of the Tangut script has been fully reconstructed, making it a subject of ongoing philological research and digital preservation within the Unicode standard for historical writing systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1837E |
| 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 | 𘍾 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𘍾 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x98 0x8D 0xBE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD820 0xDF7E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001837E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud820\udf7e |
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 | 431.13 |
| kTGT_MergedSrc | L2008-5553 |