U+18144 "𘅄" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𘅄
U+18144 "𘅄" Tangut Ideograph-# is a single ideograph from the Tangut script, which was used to write the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty (1038–1227) in what is now northwestern China. This character belongs to the Tangut Ideographs block in Unicode, a large set of thousands of logograms that were deciphered in the 20th century primarily through the discovery of bilingual texts. The specific meaning and phonetic value of this ideograph are cataloged in scholarly references, though it remains one of many characters in the script that represents a distinct word or morpheme, contributing to the broader effort to digitize and preserve historical languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+18144 |
| 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 | 𘅄 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𘅄 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x98 0x85 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD820 0xDD44 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00018144 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud820\udd44 |
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 | L2008-1693 |