U+18237 "𘈷" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𘈷
U+18237 "𘈷" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific glyph from the Tangut script, an extinct logographic writing system used during the Western Xia dynasty (1038–1227) in medieval China to write the Tangut language. This character, like all Tangut ideographs, represents a single morpheme or word, and its exact meaning has been determined through careful scholarly reconstruction based on excavated texts and dictionaries, such as the "Pearl in the Palm" bilingual glossary. In modern digital contexts, it functions as a unique coded identifier within the Unicode Standard, allowing for the preservation and representation of this historically significant script in electronic documents and fonts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+18237 |
| 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 | 𘈷 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𘈷 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x98 0x88 0xB7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD820 0xDE37 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00018237 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud820\ude37 |
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 | 367.12 |
| kTGT_MergedSrc | L2008-1567 |