U+18257 "𘉗" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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
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