U+18AF5 "𘫵" Tangut Component-758 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𘫵
U+18AF5 "𘫵" Tangut Component-758 is one of many individual graphic elements that form the building blocks of the Tangut script, a complex writing system used for the extinct Tangut language during the Western Xia dynasty in medieval China. This specific component, cataloged in the standardized Tangut Components block, represents a distinct visual stroke or shape used to construct larger, logographic Tangut characters. The Tangut script, with thousands of such characters, was deciphered primarily through research on multilingual texts and dictionaries. The inclusion of this component in Unicode ensures that scholars and digital projects can accurately encode, display, and study the intricate structure of the Tangut writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+18AF5 |
| Version Added | 13.0 |
| Name | Tangut Component-758 |
| Block | Tangut Components |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𘫵 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𘫵 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x98 0xAB 0xB5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD822 0xDEF5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00018AF5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud822\udef5 |