U+18079 "𘁹" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+18079 "𘁹" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific glyph from the Tangut script, an ancient writing system used for the extinct Tangut language spoken by the Tangut people during the Western Xia dynasty in present-day northwestern China. This ideograph is one of thousands of Tangut characters encoded in the Unicode Standard's Tangut block, added to support scholarly research and digital preservation of this complex logographic script. The character's precise meaning and pronunciation are typically identified through historical dictionaries and manuscripts, as Tangut script remains largely deciphered but still studied by linguists and historians.

General Properties

Code Point	U+18079
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	𘁹
HTML Hex Encoding	𘁹
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x98 0x81 0xB9
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD820 0xDC79
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00018079
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud820\udc79

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	286.10
kTGT_MergedSrc	L2008-5350