U+18052 "𘁒" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𘁒
U+18052 "𘁒" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific glyph representing a single ideograph from the Tangut script, a logographic writing system used to write the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty (1038–1227). This character is part of the Tangut block in Unicode, which was encoded to preserve and enable digital study of historical texts from this civilization. As an ideograph with the placeholder designation "-#", its exact semantic or phonetic value may not be fully documented or remains unidentified in modern scholarship, yet it contributes to the broader effort of making the ancient Tangut script accessible for linguistic and historical research.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+18052 |
| 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 | 𘁒 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𘁒 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x98 0x81 0x92 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD820 0xDC52 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00018052 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud820\udc52 |
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 | 284.13 |
| kTGT_MergedSrc | L2008-4812 |