U+18790 "𘞐" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+18790 "𘞐" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific glyph from the Tangut script, an ancient writing system used for the now extinct Tangut language that flourished during the Western Xia dynasty in northwestern China from the 11th to 13th centuries. This character belongs to the Tangut ideographs block, which contains thousands of logographic symbols representing words or morphemes, and it is encoded in Unicode’s Supplementary Multilingual Plane as part of ongoing efforts to preserve and digitally represent historical scripts. The exact meaning or phonetic value of U+18790 may not be widely established, as many Tangut characters are still being deciphered by scholars through study of texts like the Tangut translation of Buddhist sutras. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that researchers and linguists can encode, display, and analyze this rare character in digital environments, supporting the academic work required to better understand the Tangut civilization and its language.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
𘞐 |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
𘞐 |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xF0 0x98 0x9E 0x90 |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0xD821 0xDF90 |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x00018790 |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\ud821\udf90 |
Unicode Properties