U+186C6 "𘛆" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𘛆

U+186C6 "𘛆" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific glyph from the Tangut script, a complex logographic writing system used by the extinct Tangut people of the Western Xia dynasty in northwestern China between the 11th and 16th centuries. This particular ideograph belongs to the block of Tangut ideographs in Unicode, and its formal designation includes a hash symbol to indicate that its exact semantic meaning and phonetic value remain unidentified in current scholarly databases. The Tangut script contains over 6,000 known characters, many of which are still being deciphered by linguists and historians through ancient manuscripts and stone inscriptions. As a result, characters like this one serve as placeholders in digital text encoding, awaiting future research to assign them definitive readings or translations. The inclusion of such ideographs in Unicode helps preserve and facilitate the study of this unique and historically significant writing system.

General Properties

Code Point U+186C6
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 𘛆
HTML Hex Encoding 𘛆
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x98 0x9B 0x86
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD821 0xDEC6
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000186C6
C/C++/Java Escape \ud821\udec6

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 610.10
kTGT_MergedSrc L2008-3972