U+1855B "𘕛" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𘕛

U+1855B "𘕛" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific glyph from the Tangut script, a complex logographic writing system used to record the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty (1038–1227). This character is part of the Tangut Ideographs block in Unicode, which was added to support digital representation of the thousands of known Tangut characters, many of which remain unread or only partially deciphered by modern scholars. While the precise semantic meaning of U+1855B is not popularly established in everyday contexts, its inclusion in Unicode helps preserve and facilitate research into this historically significant script, enabling linguists and historians to study the language, culture, and administrative records of the Tangut Empire through digital archives and text processing.

General Properties

Code Point U+1855B
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 𘕛
HTML Hex Encoding 𘕛
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x98 0x95 0x9B
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD821 0xDD5B
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001855B
C/C++/Java Escape \ud821\udd5b

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 519.11
kTGT_MergedSrc L2008-5143