U+183EF "𘏯" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𘏯
U+183EF "𘏯" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific logogram from the Tangut script, which was used to write the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty (1038-1227) in present-day northwestern China. This character represents one of thousands of ideographs in the Tangut block of Unicode, each with a unique meaning, though the exact semantic value of this particular sign—identified only by its abstract index number—has not been fully deciphered or is known only to specialists. Its inclusion in the Unicode Standard, under the Supplementary Ideographic Plane, ensures that digital text can represent this ancient script, preserving a crucial part of historical linguistics and calligraphy for study and encoding purposes.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+183EF |
| 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 | 𘏯 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𘏯 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x98 0x8F 0xAF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD820 0xDFEF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000183EF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud820\udfef |
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 | 436.12 |
| kTGT_MergedSrc | L2008-5318 |