U+187AF "𘞯" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𘞯
U+187AF "𘞯" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific glyph from the Tangut script, an extinct writing system used to record the Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty (1038-1227) in present-day northwestern China. This character represents one of thousands of Tangut ideographs, each with a distinct pronunciation and meaning, though the exact semantic value of U+187AF is often provisional or unidentified even in modern scholarship. The Tangut script was highly complex, with characters resembling Chinese logographs but developed independently, and U+187AF belongs to the subset encoded in the Unicode Tangut block to facilitate digital preservation and research of this historical language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+187AF |
| 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 | 𘞯 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𘞯 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x98 0x9E 0xAF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD821 0xDFAF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000187AF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud821\udfaf |
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 | 719.12 |
| kTGT_MergedSrc | L2008-5436 |