U+18387 "𘎇" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𘎇
U+18387 "𘎇" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific ideograph from the extinct Tangut script, which was used to write the Tangut language during the Western Xia dynasty in medieval China. This character belongs to a large, logographic writing system that was deciphered in the 20th century and includes thousands of distinct symbols, each representing a syllable or word. The exact meaning of U+18387 is not widely known outside of specialized palaeographic research, as the Tangut script's dictionary is still being reconstructed from excavated texts and manuscripts. It is encoded in the Unicode standard as part of the Tangut block, which was added to support digital preservation and study of this historical script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+18387 |
| 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 | 𘎇 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𘎇 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x98 0x8E 0x87 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD820 0xDF87 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00018387 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud820\udf87 |
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 | 432.13 |
| kTGT_MergedSrc | L2008-4928 |