U+18356 "𘍖" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𘍖
U+18356 "𘍖" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific logogram from the Tangut script, a complex writing system used for the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty (1038–1227) in northwest China. This character represents one of thousands of Tangut ideographs encoded in Unicode’s Tangut block, which were deciphered from historical manuscripts and inscriptions. As a single ideograph, it carries a specific meaning and pronunciation, though its exact semantic value is determined by its context within multilingual lexicon studies, contributing to scholarly efforts to reconstruct the language and culture of the Tangut people.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+18356 |
| 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 | 𘍖 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𘍖 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x98 0x8D 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD820 0xDF56 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00018356 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud820\udf56 |
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 | 423.12 |
| kTGT_MergedSrc | L2008-5470 |