U+182AE "𘊮" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+182AE "𘊮" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific logogram within the Tangut script, an ancient writing system used for the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty (1038-1227). As part of the Tangut block in Unicode, this character represents one of thousands of distinct ideographs that were historically carved into woodblocks for printing or written with a brush, and its exact meaning often requires reference to specialized Tangut dictionaries due to the limited corpus of surviving texts. The character's inclusion in Unicode facilitates scholarly digital research and preservation of this once-lost language, which was only deciphered in the early 20th century through archaeological discoveries and linguistic analysis.

General Properties

Code Point	U+182AE
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	𘊮
HTML Hex Encoding	𘊮
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x98 0x8A 0xAE
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD820 0xDEAE
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000182AE
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud820\udeae

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	394.11
kTGT_MergedSrc	L2008-3983