U+18143 "𘅃" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𘅃
U+18143 "𘅃" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific character from the Tangut script, a historical logographic writing system used to record the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty (1038–1227) in present-day northwestern China. This ideograph represents a single Tangut word or morpheme, and its exact meaning and usage are studied by scholars through surviving manuscripts, such as the Tangut translation of Buddhist texts and the Pearl in the Palm, a Tangut legal and phraseological compendium. The character is part of the Tangut block in Unicode, which includes over 6,000 ideographs, enabling digital preservation and research of this ancient script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+18143 |
| 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 | 𘅃 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𘅃 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x98 0x85 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD820 0xDD43 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00018143 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud820\udd43 |
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 | 768.11 |
| kTGT_MergedSrc | L2008-0790 |