U+18238 "𘈸" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𘈸
U+18238 "𘈸" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific logogram from the Tangut script, an ancient writing system used for the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty in northwestern China between the 11th and 14th centuries. This particular ideograph represents one of many thousands of characters in the Tangut block of the Unicode Standard, which was encoded to preserve and enable digital study of this unique script. While the exact meaning or phonetic value of U+18238 may require specialized scholarly research, it serves as part of a complex writing system that was developed under Emperor Li Yuanhao and is known for its intricacy, with over 6,000 known characters.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+18238 |
| 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 | 𘈸 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𘈸 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x98 0x88 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD820 0xDE38 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00018238 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud820\ude38 |
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 | 367.13 |
| kTGT_MergedSrc | L2008-1568 |