U+183F4 "𘏴" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+183F4 "𘏴" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific encoded glyph from the Tangut script, an ancient logographic writing system used during the Western Xia dynasty (1038–1227 CE) in what is now northwestern China. This character represents a word or morpheme in the Tangut language, a now-extinct Tibeto-Burman language, and its precise meaning and reading are documented in scholarly dictionaries such as Li Fanwen's "Tangut-Chinese Dictionary" or the "Homophones" compilation, though its exact semantic referent is often designated simply as a placeholder number due to incomplete decipherment. The inclusion of this character in Unicode, as part of the Tangut block (U+17000–U+187FF), allows researchers globally to digitize, study, and preserve this historical script, bridging the gap between ancient manuscript traditions and modern computational linguistics.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
𘏴 |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
𘏴 |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xF0 0x98 0x8F 0xB4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0xD820 0xDFF4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x000183F4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\ud820\udff4 |
Unicode Properties