U+18168 "𘅨" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+18168 "𘅨" Tangut Ideograph-# is part of the Tangut script, a complex logographic writing system used to record the extinct Tangut language spoken during the Western Xia dynasty in medieval China. This specific ideograph represents a single character from the vast Tangut lexicon, which was deciphered primarily through the discovery of bilingual texts and dictionaries. The glyph is composed of the distinct strokes and radicals characteristic of Tangut script, which visually resembles Chinese characters but operates with its own unique phonological and semantic structure. Being included in Unicode's Tangut block, this character enables digital preservation and study of the Tangut civilization's literary and administrative records.

General Properties

Code Point	U+18168
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	𘅨
HTML Hex Encoding	𘅨
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x98 0x85 0xA8
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD820 0xDD68
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00018168
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud820\udd68

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	L2008-0287