U+18338 "𘌸" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𘌸
U+18338 "𘌸" Tangut Ideograph-# is a component of the Tangut script, a historical writing system used for the extinct Tangut language that flourished during the Western Xia dynasty (1038-1227) in what is now northwestern China. This specific ideograph corresponds to an individual logogram or morpheme within the vast Tangut character repertoire, which was deciphered in the 20th century through analysis of bilingual texts and dictionaries. The character U+18338 belongs to the Unicode Tangut block, encoded in Plane 3 (Tertiary Ideographic Plane), and its precise meaning or phonetic value is derived from scholarly reconstructions of the Tangut language's lexicon and grammar.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+18338 |
| 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 | 𘌸 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𘌸 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x98 0x8C 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD820 0xDF38 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00018338 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud820\udf38 |
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 | 419.11 |
| kTGT_MergedSrc | L2008-5558 |