U+18359 "𘍙" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+18359 "𘍙" 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 (1038–1227). This character, whose precise meaning remains partly obscure to modern scholars, was documented in the monumental Tangut dictionary, the "Sea of Characters," and likely represented a common word or concept in the administrative, legal, or Buddhist texts of the era. Its inclusion in Unicode helps preserve and digitize a fragment of a bygone civilization's intellectual heritage, facilitating ongoing research into this once-flourishing but now-deciphered language.

General Properties

Code Point	U+18359
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	𘍙
HTML Hex Encoding	𘍙
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x98 0x8D 0x99
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD820 0xDF59
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00018359
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud820\udf59

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	423.15
kTGT_MergedSrc	L2008-5699