U+18278 "𘉸" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𘉸
U+18278 "𘉸" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific logogram from the Tangut script, a complex writing system used for the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty (1038–1227 AD) in what is now northwestern China. This character is part of a vast set of Tangut ideographs encoded in Unicode's Supplementary Multilingual Plane, where it resides within the block ranging from U+17000 to U+187FF. Its precise meaning, like most Tangut characters, is known through scholarly decipherment of historical texts, often representing a single morpheme or word, and it contributes to the ongoing digital preservation and study of this ancient and intricate script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+18278 |
| 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 | 𘉸 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𘉸 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x98 0x89 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD820 0xDE78 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00018278 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud820\ude78 |
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 | 383.11 |
| kTGT_MergedSrc | L2008-3530 |