U+188BA "𘢺" Tangut Component-187 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+188BA "𘢺" Tangut Component-187 is a fundamental graphical element used in the composition of Tangut script characters, which were historically employed to write the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty. This component is part of a set of 512 radical-like building blocks encoded in Unicode's Tangut Components block, intended to assist scholars and digital text processors in analyzing, indexing, and reconstructing the thousands of complex logograms in the Tangut script. Specifically designated as component 187, it represents a distinctive stroke or sub-pattern that can combine with other such elements to form full Tangut characters, which number over 6,000 known glyphs. The inclusion of this component in Unicode supports modern computational research, font development, and textual analysis of historical Tangut manuscripts and inscriptions.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
𘢺 |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
𘢺 |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xF0 0x98 0xA2 0xBA |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0xD822 0xDCBA |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x000188BA |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\ud822\udcba |
Unicode Properties