U+18347 "𘍇" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+18347 "𘍇" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific glyph from the extinct Tangut script, which was used to write the Tangut language of the Western Xia Empire (1038–1227) in present-day northwestern China. This ideograph is part of a large, complex writing system that was deciphered primarily through the discovery of bilingual texts and dictionaries, such as the Pearl in the Palm. Like other Tangut characters, it is composed of intricate strokes that represent a word or morpheme, though its exact meaning is often determined through comparative analysis of historical manuscripts. The inclusion of this character in Unicode ensures its preservation for digital study and documentation by linguists and historians.

General Properties

Code Point	U+18347
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	𘍇
HTML Hex Encoding	𘍇
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x98 0x8D 0x87
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD820 0xDF47
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00018347
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud820\udf47

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	419.14
kTGT_MergedSrc	L2008-5263