U+18317 "𘌗" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+18317 "𘌗" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific character from the Tangut script, an ancient writing system used to record the now-extinct Tangut language spoken during the Western Xia dynasty in medieval China. As part of the Tangut Ideographs block, this character represents a unique logogram, though its exact meaning and pronunciation are often not fully defined or remain the subject of scholarly research due to the partial decipherment of the script. The Tangut script contains thousands of complex, intricate characters, and U+18317 is one of the many specialized symbols that help linguists and historians study the culture, administration, and religious texts of the Tangut Empire.

General Properties

Code Point	U+18317
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	𘌗
HTML Hex Encoding	𘌗
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x98 0x8C 0x97
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD820 0xDF17
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00018317
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud820\udf17

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	415.14
kTGT_MergedSrc	L2008-5823