U+18344 "𘍄" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𘍄
U+18344 "𘍄" Tangut Ideograph-# is a single character from the Tangut script, which was used to write the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia Empire (11th-13th centuries). This specific ideograph, like all Tangut characters, represents a distinct syllable or morpheme and was part of an extensive logographic writing system that comprises thousands of complex symbols. In modern digital encoding, it belongs to the Tangut block within Unicode, allowing for the storage and display of historical texts, though its precise meaning and pronunciation are subjects of ongoing philological research due to the limited survival of bilingual inscriptions and dictionaries.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+18344 |
| 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 | 𘍄 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𘍄 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x98 0x8D 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD820 0xDF44 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00018344 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud820\udf44 |
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 | 419.13 |
| kTGT_MergedSrc | L2008-5502 |