U+18148 "𘅈" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𘅈

U+18148 "𘅈" Tangut Ideograph-# is a single character from the Tangut script, a complex logographic writing system used for the extinct Tangut language that flourished during the Western Xia dynasty in northwestern China between the 11th and 13th centuries. This specific ideograph is one of over 6,000 known Tangut characters, each representing a word or syllable, and it resides in the Unicode Tangut block, which was incorporated into the standard in 2016 to aid in the digital preservation and study of this historically significant script. While the exact meaning of this particular character may require reference to specialized dictionaries of Tangut philology, its inclusion in Unicode represents a crucial step in making ancient documents, such as Buddhist texts and legal records, accessible to researchers and the public in a modern digital format.

General Properties

Code Point U+18148
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 𘅈
HTML Hex Encoding 𘅈
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x98 0x85 0x88
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD820 0xDD48
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00018148
C/C++/Java Escape \ud820\udd48

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 316.11
kTGT_MergedSrc L1997-5997