U+185BE "𘖾" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+185BE "𘖾" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific glyph representing a single logogram from the Tangut script, which was used to write the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty (1038–1227). This character is part of a large set of over 6,000 Tangut ideographs encoded in Unicode’s Supplementary Ideographic Plane, and its precise meaning and pronunciation are documented in Tangut dictionaries through radicals and phonetic components. The Tangut script, inspired by Chinese characters but structurally distinct, was deciphered in the 20th century from texts like the *Pearl in the Palm* and Buddhist sutras. As a Tangut ideograph, U+185BE contributes to the preservation of a unique writing system that offers insights into the history, culture, and language of a once-powerful but now vanished Central Asian kingdom.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
𘖾 |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
𘖾 |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xF0 0x98 0x96 0xBE |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0xD821 0xDDBE |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x000185BE |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\ud821\uddbe |
Unicode Properties