U+185C0 "𘗀" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
Source: Browser Default
U+185C0 "𘗀" Tangut Ideograph-# is a component of the Tangut script, an ancient writing system used during the Western Xia dynasty (1038–1227) in northwestern China. This specific ideograph represents an individual logogram from a corpus of over 6,000 known Tangut characters, which were inspired by Chinese calligraphic styles but possess distinct strokes and phonetic principles. Deciphered primarily for historical and linguistic research, U+185C0 encodes a lexical element whose precise meaning and pronunciation are determined by its context within the few surviving Tangut manuscripts, such as the Pearl in the Palm Buddhist text. Its inclusion in Unicode enables digital preservation and scholarly study of this extinct language.
General Properties
Code Point
U+185C0
Name
Tangut Ideograph-#
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
𘗀
HTML Hex Encoding
𘗀
UTF-8 Encoding
0xF0 0x98 0x97 0x80
UTF-16 Encoding
0xD821 0xDDC0
UTF-32 Encoding
0x000185C0
C/C++/Java Escape
\ud821\uddc0
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Tangut
kTGT_RSUnicode
543.17
kTGT_MergedSrc
L2008-5047