U+188B5 "𘢵" Tangut Component-182 Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𘢵

U+188B5 "𘢵" Tangut Component-182 is a graphic element from the Tangut script, an ancient writing system used for the Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty (1038-1227). This specific character represents one of the structural building blocks, or components, that combine to form the more complex logographic characters in the Tangut script. As part of the Unicode Standard's Tangut Components block, its purpose is to aid in the digital representation and study of the script's intricate composition, where over six thousand distinct characters were created by assembling such basic graphical units. Being a component rather than a full character, "𘢵" itself typically does not carry independent phonetic or semantic meaning but serves as a recognized partial shape used in scholarly analysis and font development.

General Properties

Code Point U+188B5
Version Added 9.0
Name Tangut Component-182
Block Tangut Components
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𘢵
HTML Hex Encoding 𘢵
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x98 0xA2 0xB5
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD822 0xDCB5
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000188B5
C/C++/Java Escape \ud822\udcb5

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