Tangut (Unicode block)

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Short description: Unicode character block
Tangut
RangeU+17000..U+187FF
(6,144 code points)
PlaneSMP
ScriptsTangut
Assigned6,136 code points
Unused8 reserved code points
Unicode version history
9.06,125 (+6,125)
11.06,130 (+5)
12.06,136 (+6)
Note: [1][2]

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).

Block

History

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

Version Final code points[lower-alpha 1] Count L2 ID WG2 ID Document
9.0 U+17000..187EC 6,125 N3353 (pdf, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2007-10-10), Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 51 Hanzhou, China; 2007-04-24/27 
L2/07-143 N3297 Cook, Richard (2007-05-09), Proposal to encode Tangut characters in UCS Plane 1 
L2/07-144 N3297A Cook, Richard (2007-05-08), Tangut Proposal - Multi Column Chart 
L2/07-145R N3297B Cook, Richard (2007-05-09), Tangut Proposal - Single Column Chart 
L2/07-229 Cook, Richard (2007-07-23), Tangut Proposal Code Chart Update 
L2/07-225 Moore, Lisa (2007-08-21), UTC #112 Minutes 
L2/07-289 N3307 Cook, Richard (2007-09-01), Tangut Background 
L2/07-301 N3338 Response to UC Berkeley's proposals on Tangut, 2007-09-16 
L2/07-302 N3343 Cook, Richard (2007-09-17), Expert feedback on Chinese NB input on WG2/N3297 Tangut Encoding Proposal 
L2/08-175 N3448 Comments on N3297: Proposal to encode Tangut characters, 2008-04-22 
L2/08-187 N3467 Comments on N3297: Proposal to encode Tangut characters in UCS Plane 1 and charts, 2008-04-22 
L2/08-259 N3822 Cook, Richard (2008-07-09), Tangut 5 column chart 
L2/08-318 N3453 (pdf, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2008-08-13), Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 52 
L2/08-336 Cook, Richard (2008-09-03), Single-Column Tangut Code Chart (using Column G font) 
L2/08-376 N3539 Response from Tangut scholars of China on the Tangut Unicode proposal, 2008-10-13 
L2/08-377 N3541 Kolehmainen, Erkki I. (2008-10-13), Report from the Ad Hoc on Tangut 
L2/08-412 N3553 (pdf, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2008-11-05), Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 53 
N3586 Anderson, Deborah; Cook, Richard (2009-03-04), Request for Tangut font and mappings from N3577 to Amendment 7 repertoire 
L2/09-115 N3577R Everson, Michael; Hill, Nathan; Jacques, Guillaume; West, Andrew; Zaytsev, Viacheslav (2009-04-08), Proposal for a revised Tangut character set for encoding in the SMP of the UCS 
L2/09-116 N3577R-A Everson, Michael; Hill, Nathan; Jacques, Guillaume; West, Andrew; Zaytsev, Viacheslav (2009-04-08), Proposal for a revised Tangut character set for encoding in the SMP of the UCS - Appendix A 
L2/09-117 N3577R-B Everson, Michael; Hill, Nathan; Jacques, Guillaume; West, Andrew; Zaytsev, Viacheslav (2009-04-08), Proposal for a revised Tangut character set for encoding in the SMP of the UCS - Appendix B 
L2/09-169 N3629 Tangut Ad-Hoc Meeting Report, 2009-04-20 
L2/09-234 N3603 (pdf, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2009-07-08), Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 54 
L2/10-095 N3797, N3797-A, N3797-B Final proposal for encoding the Tangut script in the SMP of the UCS, 2010-04-05 
L2/10-131 N3821 Anderson, Deborah; Cook, Richard (2010-04-16), Comments on Tangut proposal N3797 
L2/10-141 N3833 Anderson, Deborah (2010-04-21), Tangut Ad hoc report 
N3803 (pdf, doc) Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting no. 56, 2010-09-24 
L2/11-214 N4033, N4033A, N4033B West, Andrew (2011-05-22), Report on Tangut Encoding 
L2/11-204 N4083 Everson, Michael; West, Andrew (2011-05-26), Tangut chart to supplement N4033 "Report on Tangut Encoding" 
N4094 Cook, Richard; Anderson, Deborah (2011-06-01), Comments on Tangut report N4033 
L2/12-313 N4325 West, Andrew (2012-10-02), Proposal to encode the Tangut script in the UCS 
L2/12-315 N4327 Everson, Michael; West, Andrew (2012-10-02), Code chart for Tangut ideographs and Tangut radicals 
N4370 (pdf, doc) Comments on N4325, 4326 and N4327 (Tangut), 2012-10-20 
N4455 Explanation on the Re-facture of Tangut Fonts, 2013-06-10 
L2/13-241 N4516 Anderson, Deborah (2013-12-10), Summary of Tangut meeting (Beijing, China) 
L2/14-022 N4543 Suignard, Michel (2014-01-12), Character Name considerations 
L2/14-021 N4525 West, Andrew; Everson, Michael; Xiaomang, Han; Jia, Changye; Jing, Yongshi; Zaytsev, Viacheslav (2014-01-21), Code chart for the Tangut script 
L2/14-023 N4522 West, Andrew; Everson, Michael; Xiaomang, Han; Jia, Changye; Jing, Yongshi; Zaytsev, Viacheslav (2014-01-21), Proposal to encode the Tangut script in the UCS 
N4403 (pdf, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2014-01-28), Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 61, Holiday Inn, Vilnius, Lithuania; 2013-06-10/14 
L2/14-026 Moore, Lisa (2014-02-17), UTC #138 Minutes 
L2/14-100 Moore, Lisa (2014-05-13), UTC #139 Minutes 
N4553 (pdf, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2014-09-16), Minutes of WG 2 meeting 62 Adobe, San Jose, CA, USA 
L2/14-246 N4642 Anderson, Deborah (2014-09-29), Ad Hoc Reports for Tangut and Khitan Large Script 
N4640 Reveiw [sic] of N4558R Tangut glyph corrections, 2014-09-29 
L2/14-209R N4588R2 West, Andrew; Zaytsev, Viacheslav; Sun, Bojun; Everson, Michael (2014-10-01), Tangut glyph corrections 
L2/14-268R Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Iancu, Laurențiu; Glass, Andrew; Constable, Peter; Suignard, Michel (2014-10-27), Recommendations to UTC #141 October 2014 on Script Proposals 
L2/14-250 Moore, Lisa (2014-11-10), UTC #141 Minutes, "Approve the addition of Tangut character U+17132, glyph corrections, and re-ordering as given in L2/14-209R." 
L2/14-301 N4650 West, Andrew; Zaytsev, Viacheslav; Everson, Michael (2014-12-01), Discussion of Tangut character L2008-4148 
L2/15-017 Moore, Lisa (2015-02-12), UTC #142 Minutes 
L2/15-175 N4667 West, Andrew; Everson, Michael; Zaytsev, Viacheslav (2015-07-16), Review of Tangut repertoire in DAM ballot 
L2/16-052 N4603 (pdf, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2015-09-01), Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 63 
L2/15-279 N4684 Reply to WG2N4650 and WG2N4667 on Tangut, 2015-10-13 
L2/16-112 N4723 West, Andrew; Zaytsev, Viacheslav; Sun, Bojun (2016-04-21), Glyph Corrections for 3 Tangut ideographs 
L2/16-121 Moore, Lisa (2016-05-20), UTC #147 Minutes, "Correct the glyphs for U+17013, U+17712, and U+17D9F based on document L2/16-112 and update Tangut sources as described in section 3 of the document, for Unicode 10.0." 
N4739 Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 64, 2016-08-31 
L2/17-313 N4850 West, Andrew; Zaytsev, Viacheslav (2017-09-07), Glyph Corrections for 31 Tangut ideographs and one Tangut component 
L2/17-367 N4885 Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa (2017-09-18), Comments on WG2 #66 (Sept. 2017) documents 
L2/17-360 N4896 West, Andrew; Zaytsev, Viacheslav; Sun, Bojun; You, Jerry (2017-09-22), Tangut Character Additions and Glyph Corrections (replaces L2/17-313 and L2/17-314) 
L2/19-064 N5031 West, Andrew; Zaytsev, Viacheslav (2019-02-11), Investigation of Tangut unification issues 
L2/19-173 Anderson, Deborah (2019-04-29), Recommendations to UTC #159 April-May 2019 on Script Proposals 
L2/19-207 N5064 West, Andrew; Zaytsev, Viacheslav; Jia, Changye; Jing, Yongshi; Sun, Bojun (2019-05-27), Proposal to encode nine Tangut ideographs and six Tangut components 
L2/23-066 N5206 West, Andrew (2023-03-01), Glyph Corrections for Eight Tangut Ideographs [Affects U+17105, 172A4, 17BD1..17BD3, 17EF9, 18136] 
L2/23-083 Anderson, Deborah; Kučera, Jan; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Constable, Peter (2023-04-21), Recommendations to UTC #175 April 2023 on Script Proposals 
L2/23-076 Constable, Peter (2023-05-01), UTC #175 Minutes, "Accept the glyph changes for 7 Tangut ideographs (U+17105, U+172A4, U+17BD1, U+17BD2, U+17BD3, U+17EF9, and U+18136)" 
11.0 U+187ED..187F1 5 L2/16-095 N4724 West, Andrew (2016-04-21), Proposal to encode five additional Tangut ideographs 
L2/16-121 Moore, Lisa (2016-05-20), UTC #147 Minutes 
12.0 U+187F2..187F7 6 L2/17-314 N4851 West, Andrew; Zaytsev, Viacheslav (2017-09-07), Proposal to encode six additional Tangut ideographs 
L2/17-367 N4885 Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa (2017-09-18), Comments on WG2 #66 (Sept. 2017) documents 
L2/17-360 N4896 West, Andrew; Zaytsev, Viacheslav; Sun, Bojun; You, Jerry (2017-09-22), Tangut Character Additions and Glyph Corrections (replaces L2/17-313 and L2/17-314) 
N4953 (pdf, doc) Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 66, 2018-03-23 
L2/17-362 Moore, Lisa (2018-02-02), UTC #153 Minutes 
  1. Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

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