U+18D8E "" Tangut Component-783 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+18D8E "" Tangut Component-783 is a graphical element used in the construction of the Tangut script, a complex logographic writing system developed during the Tangut Empire (11th–13th centuries) in present-day northwestern China. This specific component is part of a large set of over 6,000 Tangut characters, many of which are formed by combining such structural pieces, and it was encoded in Unicode to support the digital preservation and study of the language. While the exact semantic or phonetic role of this fragment is not independently meaningful outside of a full Tangut character, its inclusion in the standard allows scholars and software to accurately represent and analyze the script's intricate composition.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+18D8E |
| Version Added | 17.0 |
| Name | Tangut Component-783 |
| Block | Tangut Components Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𘶎 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𘶎 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x98 0xB6 0x8E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD823 0xDD8E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00018D8E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud823\udd8e |