U+18258 "𘉘" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+18258 "𘉘" Tangut Ideograph-# is a single character from the Tangut script, a historical writing system used to record the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty in northwestern China approximately from 1036 to the 16th century. This particular ideograph represents one of the thousands of logographic symbols created for the Tangut script, which was invented on the order of Emperor Li Yuanhao to establish a distinct cultural identity for his empire. While the specific meaning of U+18258 is not widely publicized due to the complexity of deciphering the Tangut language, it belongs to a block of Unicode characters that scholars use in digital contexts for the study and preservation of Tangut texts. The inclusion of this character in Unicode facilitates academic research, allowing linguists and historians to encode, share, and analyze ancient Tangut manuscripts in modern electronic formats.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
𘉘 |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
𘉘 |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xF0 0x98 0x89 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0xD820 0xDE58 |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x00018258 |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\ud820\ude58 |
Unicode Properties