U+18255 "𘉕" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+18255 "𘉕" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific glyph from the Tangut script, an extinct logographic writing system used to record the Tangut language during the Western Xia dynasty (1038–1227) in what is now northwestern China. This character, like all Tangut ideographs, represents a distinct morpheme or word, though its exact meaning is known only through scholarly reconstruction from historical dictionaries and texts, as the script fell out of use after the dynasty's collapse. Its inclusion in Unicode as part of the Tangut block ensures digital preservation and enables modern research and computational analysis of this complex and once obscure writing system, which features over 6,000 known characters.

General Properties

Code Point	U+18255
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	𘉕
HTML Hex Encoding	𘉕
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x98 0x89 0x95
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD820 0xDE55
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00018255
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud820\ude55

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	376.12
kTGT_MergedSrc	L2008-4645