U+18109 "𘄉" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𘄉

U+18109 "𘄉" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific glyph from the Tangut script, a logographic writing system used for the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty (11th-14th centuries). This particular ideograph represents a unique lexical item or morpheme from the Tangut corpus, which was deciphered primarily through the study of bilingual Chinese-Tangut manuscripts. As part of the Tangut block in Unicode, it enables digital preservation and scholarly analysis of this complex script, which contains thousands of characters formed from intricate strokes. The character is categorized under the broader set of Tangut ideographs that were historically used for administrative, religious, and literary texts, though its precise meaning and pronunciation may require verification within specialized dictionaries.

General Properties

Code Point U+18109
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 𘄉
HTML Hex Encoding 𘄉
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x98 0x84 0x89
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD820 0xDD09
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00018109
C/C++/Java Escape \ud820\udd09

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 L2008-0958