U+1853C "𘔼" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𘔼
U+1853C "𘔼" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific character from the Tangut script, a logographic writing system used to record the extinct Tangut language during the Western Xia dynasty (1038–1227). This character represents one of the thousands of Tangut ideographs that were deciphered and encoded in Unicode to preserve the historical and linguistic heritage of the Tangut civilization. While the exact meaning and phonetic value of this particular ideograph remain specialized knowledge within Tangut studies, its inclusion in Unicode allows for digital representation and scholarly analysis of this complex ancient script, which was originally designed to transcribe the Tibeto-Burman language spoken by the Tangut people.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1853C |
| 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 | 𘔼 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𘔼 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x98 0x94 0xBC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD821 0xDD3C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001853C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud821\udd3c |
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 | 501.12 |
| kTGT_MergedSrc | L2008-2484 |