Tangut Components

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Tangut Components are standardized Unicode characters representing the individual structural elements used to form Tangut script ideographs.

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Tangut Components canonical 4

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Unicode character block
set of characters
blockName Tangut Components
characterType logographic components
codeSpace Unicode
contains Tangut component characters
ideographic components
documentation Unicode Standard Annexes and core specification
encodingModel component-based representation of Tangut ideographs
hasGeneralCategory Other_Letter
hasScriptCode Tang
hasScriptProperty Tangut
hasUnicodeBlockRange U+18800–U+18AFF
introducedInUnicodeVersion Unicode 9.0
note characters represent structural components, not full Tangut words
components are used to form complex Tangut ideographs
partOf Unicode Standard
plane Supplementary Multilingual Plane
proposalDocument Unicode Tangut encoding proposals
purpose to standardize encoding of Tangut structural elements
to support detailed analysis of Tangut ideographs
regionOfHistoricalUse Western Xia
northwestern China
relatedBlock Tangut
Tangut Supplement
linked to: Tangut script
relatedTo Tangut
Tangut script
script Tangut
standardizedBy Unicode Consortium
status encoded in Unicode
timeOfHistoricalUse 11th–13th centuries
usedBy digital humanities researchers
font designers
linguists
paleographers
usedFor analysis of Tangut characters
encoding components of Tangut ideographs
representation of structural elements of Tangut ideographs
usedIn Tangut character decomposition
Tangut dictionary indexing
Tangut font development
Tangut text processing
writingDirection horizontal
writingSystem Tangut script
writingSystemFamily Sino-Tibetan scripts

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Supplementary Ideographic Plane contains Tangut Components
Tangut hasUnicodeBlock Tangut Components
Tangut Components blockName Tangut Components
Tangut script hasUnicodeBlock Tangut Components