U+187B5 "𘞵" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+187B5 "𘞵" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific glyph from the Tangut script, a historical writing system used to record the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty (1038–1227). This character is part of the Unicode Tangut block, which was added to the standard to preserve and digitize the complex logographic script. The Tangut script features thousands of ideographs, each representing a word or morpheme, and U+187B5 is one of many characters that scholars continue to study and catalog through surviving manuscripts and inscriptions. Its inclusion in Unicode facilitates academic research, digital archiving, and broader access to this ancient writing system.

General Properties

Code Point	U+187B5
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	𘞵
HTML Hex Encoding	𘞵
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x98 0x9E 0xB5
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD821 0xDFB5
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000187B5
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud821\udfb5

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	722.14
kTGT_MergedSrc	L2008-0596