U+185B5 "𘖵" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𘖵
U+185B5 "𘖵" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific glyph from the Tangut script, a logographic writing system used for the extinct Tangut language spoken in the Western Xia dynasty (11th–13th centuries). This character represents a unique component of the over 6,000 known Tangut ideographs, which were decoded through painstaking analysis of texts like the Pearl in the Palm sutra. The Tangut script was created by imperial decree and is characterized by its complex, heavily stroke-laden forms, with each character typically conveying a single morpheme. This ideograph, like others in its block, is rarely used in modern contexts but is of critical importance to historians and linguists studying the culture and documentation of the Tangut Empire.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+185B5 |
| 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 | 𘖵 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𘖵 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x98 0x96 0xB5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD821 0xDDB5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000185B5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud821\uddb5 |
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 | 542.16 |
| kTGT_MergedSrc | L2008-5019 |