U+18288 "𘊈" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+18288 "𘊈" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific character within the Tangut script, an ancient writing system used by the Tangut people of the Western Xia dynasty in China from the 11th to the 16th centuries. This ideograph, like all Tangut characters, represents a distinct logographic unit derived from a complex writing system that was deciphered in the 20th century, primarily through the study of bilingual texts and the Tangut dictionary "Pearl in the Palm." While its precise semantic meaning may vary depending on scholarly interpretation or contextual usage within excavated Tangut manuscripts, it is cataloged in the Unicode Standard under the Tangut block to facilitate digital preservation and study of this historical language.

General Properties

Code Point	U+18288
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	𘊈
HTML Hex Encoding	𘊈
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x98 0x8A 0x88
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD820 0xDE88
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00018288
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud820\ude88

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	383.14
kTGT_MergedSrc	L2008-2735