U+18216 "𘈖" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𘈖
U+18216 "𘈖" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific glyph from the Tangut script, an ancient writing system used for the extinct Tangut language spoken during the Western Xia dynasty in China from the 11th to 16th centuries. This ideograph represents a single word or morpheme within the Tangut script’s vast logographic repertoire, which comprises over six thousand known characters, each typically conveying a distinct syllable or meaning. As part of the Unicode Standard's Tangut block, U+18216 enables digital preservation and scholarly study of this historical writing system, allowing modern researchers to encode and analyze texts that were otherwise inaccessible in plain text formats.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+18216 |
| 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 | 𘈖 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𘈖 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x98 0x88 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD820 0xDE16 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00018216 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud820\ude16 |
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 | 350.12 |
| kTGT_MergedSrc | L2008-0706 |