U+18DD9 "𘷙" Tangut Component-858 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𘷙
U+18DD9 "𘷙" Tangut Component-858 is a component from the Tangut script, an ancient writing system used during the Western Xia dynasty (1038–1227 CE) in present-day northwestern China. This specific component is part of the set of Tangut radicals used as building blocks for over six thousand complex Tangut characters, many of which remain undeciphered. The Tangut script was created by imperial decree to record the extinct Tangut language, and components like U+18DD9 are studied by scholars to understand the script’s logographic structure and historical linguistics. In modern computing, this character is encoded in Unicode’s Tangut Components block, enabling digital preservation and research.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+18DD9 |
| Version Added | 17.0 |
| Name | Tangut Component-858 |
| Block | Tangut Components Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𘷙 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𘷙 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x98 0xB7 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD823 0xDDD9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00018DD9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud823\uddd9 |