U+188A4 "𘢤" Tangut Component-165 Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𘢤

U+188A4 "𘢤" Tangut Component-165 is a graphical element drawn from the Tangut script, an ancient logographic writing system used during the Western Xia dynasty in medieval China. This specific component, identified numerically as 165 in the Unicode Tangut Components block, represents a basic structural part used in the composition of more complex Tangut characters, functioning similarly to a radical or stroke pattern in other scripts. It does not have an independent phonetic or semantic meaning on its own, but rather serves as a building block within the intricate system of over 6,000 Tangut logographs, which were deciphered through painstaking historical and linguistic analysis. The encoding of this component in Unicode supports digital preservation and scholarly study of this extinct script.

General Properties

Code Point U+188A4
Version Added 9.0
Name Tangut Component-165
Block Tangut Components
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𘢤
HTML Hex Encoding 𘢤
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x98 0xA2 0xA4
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD822 0xDCA4
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000188A4
C/C++/Java Escape \ud822\udca4

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