U+18132 "𘄲" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𘄲

U+18132 "𘄲" Tangut Ideograph-# is a single glyph from the Tangut script, a logographic writing system used to record the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty (1038–1227). This character is one of over 6,000 Tangut ideographs encoded in the Unicode Standard, specifically within the Tangut block, and it represents a specific morpheme or word in that historical language. Its precise meaning and phonetic value remain largely undeciphered, as scholars continue to reconstruct Tangut vocabulary from surviving manuscripts, making each ideograph like U+18132 a piece of a larger puzzle in understanding this medieval culture. The inclusion of such characters in Unicode ensures the preservation and digital accessibility of this rare and complex script for linguistic research and digital typography.

General Properties

Code Point U+18132
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 𘄲
HTML Hex Encoding 𘄲
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x98 0x84 0xB2
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD820 0xDD32
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00018132
C/C++/Java Escape \ud820\udd32

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 768.9
kTGT_MergedSrc L2008-0349