U+18396 "𘎖" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+18396 "𘎖" Tangut Ideograph-# is a member of the Tangut script, a complex logographic writing system used to record the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty (1038–1227 CE). This particular ideograph represents a specific lexical item or morpheme from the Tangut corpus, which was deciphered primarily through the analysis of bilingual Chinese-Tangut dictionaries and Buddhist texts. The character appears in the Unicode Tangut block, which includes thousands of such ideographs standardized to support digital research and preservation of the language. Its precise meaning, while cataloged in modern Tangut dictionaries, often requires expert knowledge of the script’s history and its unique phonetic and semantic structures.

General Properties

Code Point	U+18396
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	𘎖
HTML Hex Encoding	𘎖
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x98 0x8E 0x96
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD820 0xDF96
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00018396
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud820\udf96

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	434.12
kTGT_MergedSrc	L2008-5337