U+186FC "𘛼" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𘛼
U+186FC "𘛼" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific logographic symbol from the Tangut script, an ancient writing system used for the extinct Tangut language spoken during the Western Xia dynasty in northwestern China from the 11th to the 16th centuries. This particular ideograph is part of the Tangut block in Unicode, which includes thousands of complex characters that were deciphered from historical manuscripts and stone inscriptions. The character represents a lexical unit in Tangut, though its precise meaning and pronunciation are often reconstructed by scholars based on context in Buddhist texts and administrative records. Its encoding in Unicode ensures preservation and digital accessibility for linguistic research and historical study.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+186FC |
| 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 | 𘛼 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𘛼 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x98 0x9B 0xBC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD821 0xDEFC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000186FC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud821\udefc |
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 | 645.16 |
| kTGT_MergedSrc | H2004-A-5647 |