U+18243 "𘉃" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𘉃
U+18243 "𘉃" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific glyph from the Tangut script, a logographic writing system used for the extinct Tangut language spoken during the Western Xia dynasty in northwestern China. This character represents a single Tangut ideograph, and its precise meaning is encoded in the Unicode Standard as part of the Tangut block, which was added to support the study and digital representation of this historical script. The Tangut script is known for its complexity, with over 6,000 known characters, and U+18243 is one of these symbols, used to preserve and analyze texts from the 11th to 16th centuries.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+18243 |
| 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 | 𘉃 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𘉃 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x98 0x89 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD820 0xDE43 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00018243 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud820\ude43 |
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 | 373.9 |
| kTGT_MergedSrc | L2008-3445 |