U+183F8 "𘏸" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𘏸
U+183F8 "𘏸" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific glyph from the Tangut script, an ancient logographic writing system used to write the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty (1038–1227). This particular ideograph, whose precise meaning is documented in Tangut lexicographic sources, appears in the Unicode Tangut block, which was added to version 9.0 of the standard in 2016. It represents one of over 6,000 known Tangut characters, many of which were deciphered from the multilingual Pearl in the Palm sutra and other excavated texts, providing scholars with a unique window into the linguistic and cultural practices of this medieval kingdom.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+183F8 |
| 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 | 𘏸 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𘏸 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x98 0x8F 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD820 0xDFF8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000183F8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud820\udff8 |
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 | L2008-5442 |