U+18188 "𘆈" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+18188 "𘆈" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific graphical symbol from the Tangut script, which was historically used to write the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty (11th–13th centuries) in northwestern China. This character represents one of the thousands of logograms that formed the Tangut script, a complex writing system inspired by Chinese characters but structurally distinct. Its precise meaning in the Tangut language is not fully deciphered and is typically identified by its placeholder index number within the Unicode standard, as the script remains an active area of philological research. The character was encoded in the Tangut block of Unicode to support digital preservation and study of this ancient writing system.

General Properties

Code Point	U+18188
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	𘆈
HTML Hex Encoding	𘆈
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x98 0x86 0x88
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD820 0xDD88
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00018188
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud820\udd88

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	321.15
kTGT_MergedSrc	L2008-1784