U+18A8E "𘪎" Tangut Component-655 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𘪎
U+18A8E "𘪎" Tangut Component-655 is a specific graphical element from the Tangut script, an ancient writing system used for the Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty (1038–1227). This character is classified as a component or radical, meaning it serves as a building block for more complex Tangut logographs, and it was encoded in the Unicode Standard as part of the Tangut Components block to aid in the digital representation and study of this historical script. Its precise visual shape and phonetic or semantic role are studied by scholars to reconstruct the language and decipher Tangut texts, with this particular component numbered 655 in the official component list.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+18A8E |
| Version Added | 9.0 |
| Name | Tangut Component-655 |
| Block | Tangut Components |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𘪎 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𘪎 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x98 0xAA 0x8E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD822 0xDE8E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00018A8E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud822\ude8e |