U+18108 "𘄈" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𘄈
U+18108 "𘄈" Tangut Ideograph-# is a representative glyph from the Tangut script, a complex writing system used for the extinct Tangut language during the Western Xia dynasty (1038–1227 CE) in what is now northwestern China. This character is part of the Tangut Ideographs block, which includes thousands of distinct logograms that were deciphered from historical manuscripts, such as the Tangut translation of Buddhist texts and legal documents. The specific meaning of U+18108 is not widely publicized, as many Tangut characters remain subjects of ongoing philological research, but its inclusion in Unicode enables digital preservation and study of this ancient script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+18108 |
| 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 | 𘄈 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𘄈 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x98 0x84 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD820 0xDD08 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00018108 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud820\udd08 |
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 | 308.13 |
| kTGT_MergedSrc | L2008-0643 |