U+18909 "𘤉" Tangut Component-266 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𘤉
U+18909 "𘤉" Tangut Component-266 is one of the radical-like building blocks used in the reconstruction and digital encoding of the Tangut script, which was historically used to write the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty. This component represents a specific graphical element that appears as a subpart within more complex Tangut ideographs, helping scholars and linguists organize the script’s thousands of characters by shared structural features. Its inclusion in Unicode’s Tangut Components block facilitates accurate font design, text rendering, and scholarly research into the logographic writing system, which was deciphered largely during the 20th century.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+18909 |
| Version Added | 9.0 |
| Name | Tangut Component-266 |
| Block | Tangut Components |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𘤉 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𘤉 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x98 0xA4 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD822 0xDD09 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00018909 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud822\udd09 |