U+188DA "𘣚" Tangut Component-219 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𘣚
U+188DA "𘣚" Tangut Component-219 is a graphic element from the Tangut script, a logographic writing system used for the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty (11th–14th centuries). This component is specifically a simplified, abstract stroke or sub‑shape that appears as a building block within more complex Tangut characters, much like a radical in Chinese. It is encoded in the Tangut Components block of Unicode to aid in digital text processing, scholarly analysis, and font design for the script. The precise visual form of this component may vary slightly across different fonts, but it generally represents a distinctive curved or angled stroke essential for reconstructing and documenting the Tangut writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+188DA |
| Version Added | 9.0 |
| Name | Tangut Component-219 |
| Block | Tangut Components |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𘣚 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𘣚 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x98 0xA3 0x9A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD822 0xDCDA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000188DA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud822\udcda |