U+18857 "𘡗" Tangut Component-088 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𘡗
U+18857 "𘡗" Tangut Component-088 is a designated component from the Tangut script, a historical writing system used for the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty in medieval China. This particular component is a graphical building block used within the Unicode standard's Tangut ideographic block to assist in describing the complex logographic characters of the script. As one of over 600 such predefined components, it serves as a reference for the intricate strokes and radicals that combine to form full Tangut characters, aiding scholars and digital systems in encoding, reconstructing, and analyzing the script's structure without representing a standalone word.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+18857 |
| Version Added | 9.0 |
| Name | Tangut Component-088 |
| Block | Tangut Components |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𘡗 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𘡗 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x98 0xA1 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD822 0xDC57 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00018857 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud822\udc57 |