U+18164 "𘅤" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𘅤
U+18164 "𘅤" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific ideograph from the Tangut script, a complex logographic writing system used to record the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty (1038–1227). This character is part of the Tangut block in the Unicode Standard, which was included to preserve and digitally encode the over 6,000 known Tangut ideographs. The exact meaning of U+18164 is not widely published in everyday English language sources, as many Tangut characters remain the subject of scholarly research, but it typically represents a single morpheme or word from the Tangut lexicon. Its inclusion in Unicode allows for consistent digital representation, study, and documentation of this historically significant script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+18164 |
| 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 | 𘅤 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𘅤 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x98 0x85 0xA4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD820 0xDD64 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00018164 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud820\udd64 |
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 | 768.14 |
| kTGT_MergedSrc | L2008-1715 |