U+187A4 "𘞤" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+187A4 "𘞤" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific logographic symbol from the Tangut script, a writing system historically used for the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty in northwestern China. This character belongs to a large block of Tangut ideographs encoded in Unicode, each representing a distinct word or morpheme. While its exact meaning remains a subject of ongoing scholarly research, it is part of a corpus of thousands of characters that were deciphered primarily from texts discovered in the early 20th century. The inclusion of U+187A4 in Unicode allows for its digital representation and study, aiding linguists and historians in preserving and analyzing this ancient script.

General Properties

Code Point	U+187A4
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	𘞤
HTML Hex Encoding	𘞤
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x98 0x9E 0xA4
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD821 0xDFA4
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000187A4
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud821\udfa4

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	716.10
kTGT_MergedSrc	L2008-4874