U+18040 "𘁀" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𘁀
U+18040 "𘁀" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific graphical symbol that belongs to the Tangut script, an ancient writing system used to record the now-extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty in medieval China, which flourished from the 11th to the 13th centuries. This character is one of thousands of logographic ideographs that replicate the style of Chinese characters but with distinctively different, often more complex stroke compositions, and it has been encoded in the Unicode Standard to facilitate digital preservation, research, and the study of Tangut historical documents.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+18040 |
| Version Added | 9.0 |
| Name | Tangut Ideograph-# |
| Block | Tangut |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𘁀 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𘁀 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x98 0x81 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD820 0xDC40 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00018040 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud820\udc40 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Ideographic |
| East Asian Width | Wide |
| Script | Tangut |
| Script Extensions | Tangut |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| ID Start | Yes |
| XID Start | Yes |
| ID Continue | Yes |
| XID Continue | Yes |
| Alphabetic | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Upright |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | OLetter |
| Ideographic | Yes |
| kTGT_RSUnicode | 278.17 |
| kTGT_MergedSrc | L2008-3872 |