U+185CA "𘗊" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𘗊
U+185CA "𘗊" Tangut Ideograph-# is part of the Tangut script, an ancient writing system used for the extinct Tangut language spoken during the Western Xia dynasty (1038–1227) in what is now northwestern China. This specific ideograph represents a unique logographic character from the Tangut block, which consists of thousands of complex, stroke-heavy symbols that were deciphered through scholarly analysis of multilingual inscriptions and manuscripts. Like other Tangut characters, U+185CA encodes a specific morpheme or concept within the language, and its inclusion in Unicode ensures digital preservation and global accessibility for linguists and historians studying this once-lost script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+185CA |
| 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 | 𘗊 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𘗊 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x98 0x97 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD821 0xDDCA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000185CA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud821\uddca |
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 | 542.20 |
| kTGT_MergedSrc | L2008-4880 |