U+187FC "𘟼" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+187FC "𘟼" Tangut Ideograph-# is a single graphical unit from the Tangut script, an ancient writing system used during the Western Xia dynasty (1038–1227) to record the extinct Tangut language. This particular ideograph represents one of thousands of logographic characters in the Tangut block of the Unicode Standard, which was added to enable digital preservation and scholarly study of a script that was indecipherable for centuries until key texts like the Tangut translation of the *Sutra of Golden Light* were used to crack the code. Each ideograph in this block carries a unique semantic and phonetic value, often corresponding to a specific morpheme or word in Tangut, though the precise meaning of U+187FC is primarily identified by its numeric placeholder within the Unicode repertoire. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that linguists, historians, and digital humanists can encode, share, and analyze this rare character across modern computing platforms without loss of fidelity.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
𘟼 |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
𘟼 |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xF0 0x98 0x9F 0xBC |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0xD821 0xDFFC |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x000187FC |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\ud821\udffc |
Unicode Properties