U+186BC "𘚼" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𘚼

U+186BC "𘚼" 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 (1038–1227) in what is now China. This character belongs to the Tangut Ideographs block of Unicode, which contains thousands of logograms that represent words or morphemes, similar to Chinese characters but with distinct shapes and phonetic principles. The exact meaning and reading of U+186BC are cataloged in scholarly Tangut dictionaries, though its interpretation depends on its context within original manuscripts, such as Buddhist texts or legal documents. As a Tangut ideograph, it reflects the unique cultural and linguistic heritage of the Tangut people and is of interest to historians and linguists studying the disappearance of the language and the script's recent decipherment efforts.

General Properties

Code Point U+186BC
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 𘚼
HTML Hex Encoding 𘚼
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x98 0x9A 0xBC
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD821 0xDEBC
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000186BC
C/C++/Java Escape \ud821\udebc

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 603.16
kTGT_MergedSrc L2008-6030