Tangut is a Unicode block containing characters from the Tangut script, which was used for writing the Tangut language spoken by the Tangut people in the Western Xia Empire, and in China during the Yuan dynasty and early Ming dynasty.
Tangut characters do not have descriptive character names, but have names derived algorithmically from their code point value (e.g. U+17000 is named TANGUT IDEOGRAPH-17000).
In Unicode 13.0, the Tangut Supplement block was assigned for additional Tangut ideographs.
Block
History The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Tangut block:
Version Count L2 ID WG2 ID Document 9.0 U+17000..187EC 6,125 doc) N3297 N3297A N3297B N3307 N3338 N3343 N3448 N3467 N3822 doc) N3496 N3498R N3521 N3539 N3541 doc) N3577 N3586 N3577R N3629 doc) N3797, N3821 N3833 doc) N4033, N4033A, N4033B N4083 N4094 N4325 N4327 doc) N4455 N4516 N4543 N4525 N4522 doc) doc) N4642 N4640 N4588R2 N4650 N4667 doc) N4684 N4723 N4739 N4850 N4885 N4896 N5031 N5064 N5206 N5237 11.0 U+187ED..187F1 5 N4724 12.0 U+187F2..187F7 6 N4851 N4885 N4896 doc) 17.0 U+187F8..187FF 8 N5217 N5217R
See also Tangut Supplement (Unicode block) Tangut Components (Unicode block) Tangut Components Supplement (Unicode block) Ideographic Symbols and Punctuation (Unicode block)
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