U+18296 "𘊖" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𘊖
U+18296 "𘊖" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific logogram from the extinct Tangut script, which was used to write the Tangut language during the Western Xia dynasty (11th–13th centuries). This character is part of the Tangut ideographs block in Unicode, added to support the digital encoding and scholarly study of the thousands of complex, stroke-heavy symbols that make up the script. While its precise meaning and pronunciation are often subjects of philological research, it represents a distinct concept or morpheme in the Tangut vocabulary, typically deciphered through comparative analysis of surviving manuscripts and dictionaries.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+18296 |
| 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 | 𘊖 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𘊖 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x98 0x8A 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD820 0xDE96 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00018296 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud820\ude96 |
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 | 384.14 |
| kTGT_MergedSrc | L2008-2293 |