U+188AB "𘢫" Tangut Component-172 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𘢫
U+188AB "𘢫" Tangut Component-172 is a graphical element from the Tangut script, a complex logographic writing system used for the extinct Tangut language spoken in the Western Xia dynasty. This component serves as a fundamental building block for constructing composite Tangut characters, analogous to radicals in Chinese, and is part of the Tangut Components block in Unicode, which was added to support digital encoding and scholarly research of the script. The specific shape of this component, recognized as number 172 in the official classification, contributes to the formation of various Tangut ideographs whose meanings and pronunciations have been reconstructed by linguists from historical texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+188AB |
| Version Added | 9.0 |
| Name | Tangut Component-172 |
| Block | Tangut Components |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𘢫 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𘢫 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x98 0xA2 0xAB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD822 0xDCAB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000188AB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud822\udcab |