U+18A26 "𘨦" Tangut Component-551 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𘨦
U+18A26 "𘨦" Tangut Component-551 is a structural element from the Tangut script, a complex logographic writing system used for the extinct Tangut language of the Xixia Empire (1038–1227). This particular component, like hundreds of others in the Tangut repertoire, serves as a fundamental building block for composing more elaborate characters. In the Unicode standard, these components are encoded separately to facilitate digital representation and scholarly analysis of the Tangut script, though they are rarely used in isolation. The Tangut script itself is known for its intricacy, with over 6,000 known characters, many formed by combining such components in visually dense and often vertically stacked arrangements.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+18A26 |
| Version Added | 9.0 |
| Name | Tangut Component-551 |
| Block | Tangut Components |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𘨦 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𘨦 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x98 0xA8 0xA6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD822 0xDE26 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00018A26 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud822\ude26 |