U+18297 "𘊗" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𘊗
U+18297 "𘊗" Tangut Ideograph-# is a logographic character from the Tangut script, which was used to write the extinct Tangut language spoken in the Western Xia dynasty (11th–13th centuries). This particular ideograph represents a specific word or concept within the Tangut writing system, which consists of over 6,000 known characters, each with a complex structure and meaning. The character is encoded in the Tangut block of the Unicode Standard, enabling its digital representation and study by scholars of historical linguistics, paleography, and Sinology. Its precise meaning remains a subject of ongoing research, as many Tangut texts are still being reconstructed and interpreted from archaeological discoveries.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+18297 |
| 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 | 𘊗 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𘊗 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x98 0x8A 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD820 0xDE97 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00018297 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud820\ude97 |
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 | L2008-2768 |