U+185C5 "𘗅" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𘗅
U+185C5 "𘗅" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific logographic symbol from the Tangut script, which was used to write the extinct Tangut language of the Xixia Empire in northwestern China from the 11th to the 16th centuries. This particular ideograph represents a single lexical unit within the vast and complex Tangut writing system, which comprises thousands of characters deliberately created in imitation of Chinese characters but with distinct structural and phonetic principles. The character is encoded in the Tangut block of Unicode, supporting scholarly research and digital preservation of historical texts, such as the Tangut translations of Buddhist scriptures and legal documents.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+185C5 |
| 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 | 𘗅 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𘗅 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x98 0x97 0x85 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD821 0xDDC5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000185C5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud821\uddc5 |
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 | 542.18 |
| kTGT_MergedSrc | L2008-4781 |