U+1859E "𘖞" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𘖞
U+1859E "𘖞" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific glyph from the Tangut script, a historical writing system used for the extinct Tangut language during the Western Xia dynasty in China (11th–13th centuries). This character belongs to the Tangut Ideographs block, which encodes thousands of logographic symbols that were deciphered through the study of bilingual Chinese-Tangut inscriptions and dictionaries. Its precise meaning remains partially understood by scholars, as Tangut script research is ongoing, but it typically represents a syllable or word in the Tangut language, contributing to the broader effort to reconstruct and interpret this ancient civilization’s written records.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1859E |
| 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 | 𘖞 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𘖞 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x98 0x96 0x9E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD821 0xDD9E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001859E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud821\udd9e |
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 | 542.12 |
| kTGT_MergedSrc | L2008-4679 |