U+18257 "𘉗" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𘉗

U+18257 "𘉗" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific character from the Tangut script, an ancient writing system used for the extinct Tangut language spoken during the Western Xia dynasty in northwestern China from the 11th to the 16th centuries. This character belongs to a large set of Tangut ideographs, which were primarily used for administrative, religious, and literary texts, and were logographic in nature, similar in function to Chinese characters but structurally distinct. The precise meaning of this particular ideograph is defined in the Tangut Dictionary, where it represents a specific word or concept within the language, and it is encoded in Unicode under Plane 1 as part of the Tangut block to support digital preservation and scholarly research of this historical script.

General Properties

Code Point U+18257
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 𘉗
HTML Hex Encoding 𘉗
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x98 0x89 0x97
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD820 0xDE57
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00018257
C/C++/Java Escape \ud820\ude57

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 L2008-4590