Tangut Unicode Block

The Unicode Tangut block, also known as the Tangut Ideographs block, is a section of the Unicode Standard that encodes characters from the Tangut script. The Tangut script was used to write the Tangut language, which was spoken in the Western Xia Empire in ancient China. This script is notable for its unique and intricate characters, which are logographic and have no direct relation to Chinese characters. The Unicode Tangut block contains over 6,000 characters, which cover a wide range of ideographic symbols used in Tangut writing. These characters were added to Unicode to facilitate the digital representation and preservation of the Tangut script, which is of historical and linguistic significance. Researchers and scholars interested in the Tangut language and culture can use Unicode to encode and display these characters in digital documents and fonts.

View a range of fonts that support the Tangut block.

Below you will find all the characters that are in the Tangut unicode block. Currently there are 6144 characters in this block.