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Tangut (Unicode block)

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Plane
  
SMP

Assigned
  
6,125 code points

Scripts
  
Tangut

9.0
  
6,125 (+6,125)

Range
  
U+17000..U+187FF (6,144 code points)

Unused
  
19 reserved code points

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.

History

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Tangut block:

References

Tangut (Unicode block) Wikipedia