U+18229 "𘈩" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+18229 "𘈩" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific graphical symbol belonging to the Tangut script, a historical writing system used from the 11th to the 16th century for the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty in present-day northwestern China. This character resides in the Tangut Ideographs block of the Unicode standard, which was added to enable digital representation and study of this complex script. Each Tangut character, including U+18229, encodes a unique logogram that represents a word or morpheme, though the precise meaning of this particular ideograph is often context dependent and identified by its index number within scholarly catalogues, such as the Kychanov dictionary. The inclusion of this character in Unicode facilitates historical and linguistic research by allowing electronic texts to store, display, and search Tangut writings accurately.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
𘈩 |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
𘈩 |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xF0 0x98 0x88 0xA9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0xD820 0xDE29 |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x00018229 |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\ud820\ude29 |
Unicode Properties