U+1873C "𘜼" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+1873C "𘜼" Tangut Ideograph-# is part of the Tangut Ideographs block in the Unicode Standard, which represents the writing system of the extinct Tangut Empire that flourished in northwestern China between the 11th and 13th centuries. This specific character belongs to the vast corpus of over 6,000 known Tangut ideographs, which were primarily used for official, religious, and literary texts. The Tangut script, designed in 1036 by scholar Yeli Renrong under Emperor Li Yuanhao, is notable for its structurally complex characters formed from a combination of semantic and phonetic components, and Unicode encoding of these ideographs facilitates modern digital preservation and scholarly study of this unique logographic system.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1873C
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	𘜼
HTML Hex Encoding	𘜼
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x98 0x9C 0xBC
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD821 0xDF3C
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001873C
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud821\udf3c

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	675.12
kTGT_MergedSrc	L2008-1223