U+18166 "𘅦" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𘅦
U+18166 "𘅦" Tangut Ideograph-# is a component of the Tangut script, an ancient writing system used to record the extinct Tangut language during the Western Xia dynasty (1038–1227 CE). This specific ideograph belongs to the set of over 6,000 characters encoded in the Tangut block of Unicode, which were deciphered from historical manuscripts and inscriptions. Its precise meaning or phonetic value is not universally agreed upon due to the limited corpus of surviving texts, but it represents a logographic symbol similar to Chinese characters, used for writing the unique and complex Tangut language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+18166 |
| 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 | 𘅦 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𘅦 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x98 0x85 0xA6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD820 0xDD66 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00018166 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud820\udd66 |
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 | 316.14 |
| kTGT_MergedSrc | S1968-4780 |