U+1872F "𘜯" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𘜯

U+1872F "𘜯" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific glyph within the Tangut script, a complex writing system used for the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty (1038–1227) in northwestern China. This character, cataloged under the Tangut block in Unicode, represents an uncolored or derived ideograph whose exact meaning is often unknown or partially reconstructed by scholars, as the Tangut script contains over 6,000 characters and most are understood through a small corpus of surviving texts, including Buddhist scriptures and legal documents. The inclusion of U+1872F in digital character encoding allows for the preservation and study of this historical writing system, enabling researchers to analyze its structure, phonology, and cultural significance in a modern computing context.

General Properties

Code Point U+1872F
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 𘜯
HTML Hex Encoding 𘜯
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x98 0x9C 0xAF
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD821 0xDF2F
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001872F
C/C++/Java Escape \ud821\udf2f

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 672.9
kTGT_MergedSrc L2008-4214