U+18162 "𘅢" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𘅢
U+18162 "𘅢" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific logogram from the extinct Tangut script, which was used to write the Tangut language spoken by the Tangut people of the Western Xia dynasty (11th–13th centuries). This character is part of a larger set of Tangut ideographs encoded in the Unicode Standard to preserve and digitize historical scripts. Its precise meaning and pronunciation are typically identified by scholars through the compound index number assigned in academic inventories, as each Tangut character represents a distinct syllable or morpheme. The inclusion of such characters in Unicode helps ensure that researchers and linguists can digitally represent and study this unique writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+18162 |
| 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 | 𘅢 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𘅢 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x98 0x85 0xA2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD820 0xDD62 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00018162 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud820\udd62 |
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 | 768.13 |
| kTGT_MergedSrc | L2008-1295 |