U+188E8 "𘣨" Tangut Component-233 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𘣨
U+188E8 "𘣨" Tangut Component-233 is a specific graphical element used in the construction of Tangut ideographs, the script of the extinct Tangut Empire that flourished in northwest China from the 11th to 13th centuries. This component, which does not carry independent meaning, functions as a building block within the complex logographic system, and its inclusion in Unicode supports the digital preservation and scholarly study of Tangut manuscripts. As part of the Tangut Components block, it represents one of the many standardized radicals that scholars have identified for categorizing and reconstructing the thousands of characters in the Tangut script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+188E8 |
| Version Added | 9.0 |
| Name | Tangut Component-233 |
| Block | Tangut Components |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𘣨 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𘣨 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x98 0xA3 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD822 0xDCE8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000188E8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud822\udce8 |