U+18A7B "𘩻" Tangut Component-636 Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𘩻

U+18A7B "𘩻" Tangut Component-636 is a graphic element from the Tangut script, an ancient writing system used for the Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty (1038-1227) in northwestern China. This component serves as a structural part from which many complex Tangut logographic characters are built, representing a specific stroke or radical shape found within the script's intricate calligraphic forms. Its inclusion in the Unicode Standard as part of the Tangut Components block (U+18A70 to U+18AFF) aids scholars and digital text processing by providing a standardized way to represent the underlying building blocks of Tangut characters. Understanding components like this one is crucial for the reconstruction, classification, and computational analysis of the nearly 6,000 known Tangut characters, many of which remain untranslated.

General Properties

Code Point U+18A7B
Version Added 9.0
Name Tangut Component-636
Block Tangut Components
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𘩻
HTML Hex Encoding 𘩻
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x98 0xA9 0xBB
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD822 0xDE7B
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00018A7B
C/C++/Java Escape \ud822\ude7b

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Ideographic
East Asian Width Wide
Script Tangut
Script Extensions Tangut
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Other
Sentence Break OLetter
Ideographic Yes