U+1879C "𘞜" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+1879C "𘞜" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific encoded symbol from the Tangut script, an extinct logographic writing system used during the Tangut Empire in medieval China from around the 11th to the 16th centuries. This particular ideograph, like all Tangut characters, was part of a complex script devised to represent the now-dead Tangut language, which was not fully deciphered until the 20th century through the study of bilingual texts and dictionaries. The character itself does not have a known modern meaning in any living language, and its usage is primarily of scholarly interest for the study of Tangut linguistics, paleography, and historical Chinese frontier cultures. Its inclusion in Unicode allows for digital preservation and academic analysis of this ancient script in modern computing environments.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
𘞜 |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
𘞜 |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xF0 0x98 0x9E 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0xD821 0xDF9C |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x0001879C |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\ud821\udf9c |
Unicode Properties