U+1878E "𘞎" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+1878E "𘞎" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific logogram from the extinct Tangut script, which was used to write the Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty (1038–1227) in present-day northwestern China. This character, like others in the Tangut block, represents a single syllable or word and was deciphered through comparative studies of Tangut manuscripts and dictionaries, such as the Pearl in the Palm. Its precise meaning and phonetic value, while documented in scholarly databases, may not be commonly known outside specialized linguistic or historical research, as the Tangut script consists of thousands of intricate characters that were rediscovered and gradually decoded in the 20th century.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1878E
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	𘞎
HTML Hex Encoding	𘞎
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x98 0x9E 0x8E
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD821 0xDF8E
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001878E
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud821\udf8e

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	705.14
kTGT_MergedSrc	L2008-0640