U+181F8 "𘇸" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𘇸
U+181F8 "𘇸" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific glyph from the Tangut script, a logographic writing system used to record the extinct Tangut language of the Xixia Empire (1038–1227) in what is now northwestern China. This character belongs to the Tangut Ideographs block in Unicode, which encodes thousands of these complex characters that were deciphered primarily through the study of bilingual Chinese-Tangut texts. Its meaning and pronunciation have been identified through scholarly reconstruction, representing a word or morpheme integral to the Tangut vocabulary, though the exact semantic value is often tied to the specific lexicon of the dynasty's historical and Buddhist texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+181F8 |
| 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 | 𘇸 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𘇸 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x98 0x87 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD820 0xDDF8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000181F8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud820\uddf8 |
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 | 342.13 |
| kTGT_MergedSrc | L2008-1882 |