U+187B4 "𘞴" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𘞴
U+187B4 "𘞴" Tangut Ideograph-# is a single logograph belonging to the Tangut script, an ancient writing system used to record the now extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty (1038–1227). This specific ideograph is part of a large block of Tangut characters encoded in the Unicode Standard's Supplementary Multilingual Plane, included to support historical and linguistic research of this unique script. While its precise meaning is yet to be fully determined in modern scholarship, its structure follows the typical Tangut pattern of complex strokes and radicals. Its addition to Unicode helps preserve and digitally represent a critical piece of Central Asian cultural and intellectual history.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+187B4 |
| 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 | 𘞴 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𘞴 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x98 0x9E 0xB4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD821 0xDFB4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000187B4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud821\udfb4 |
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 | 721.15 |
| kTGT_MergedSrc | L2008-0595 |