U+1809F "𘂟" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𘂟
U+1809F "𘂟" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific glyph within the Tangut script, an extinct writing system used to record the Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty in medieval China. This character belongs to the Tangut Ideographs block, which includes thousands of logographic signs representing morphemes of the Tangut language. The precise meaning and phonetic value of U+1809F remain under scholarly investigation, as the script was largely deciphered in the 20th century from excavated texts, including bilingual Chinese Tangut inscriptions and dictionaries. Its inclusion in Unicode allows for digital preservation, research, and cross platform representation of this historically significant script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1809F |
| 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 | 𘂟 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𘂟 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x98 0x82 0x9F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD820 0xDC9F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001809F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud820\udc9f |
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 | 296.11 |
| kTGT_MergedSrc | L2008-5989 |