U+18318 "𘌘" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+18318 "𘌘" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific glyph from the Tangut script, an ancient writing system used to record the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty in northwestern China between the 11th and 16th centuries. This character is part of a large, complex syllabary of over 6,000 ideographic signs, most of which remain undeciphered or have uncertain meanings. The Tangut script was created by decree in 1036 and modeled after Chinese characters, though its internal structure is distinct and largely logographic. U+18318 falls within the Tangut Supplement block of the Unicode Standard, which was added to support rare and specialized characters for scholarly research and digital preservation of historical texts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+18318
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	𘌘
HTML Hex Encoding	𘌘
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x98 0x8C 0x98
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD820 0xDF18
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00018318
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud820\udf18

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	415.15
kTGT_MergedSrc	L2008-5867