U+18408 "𘐈" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𘐈
U+18408 "𘐈" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific glyph from the Tangut script, a historical writing system used for the extinct Tangut language spoken by the Tangut people of the Western Xia dynasty in medieval China. This character belongs to the Tangut Ideographs block of Unicode, which encodes thousands of logographic symbols that were deciphered primarily from texts such as the Tangut translation of Buddhist sutras and legal documents. The exact meaning and phonetic value of U+18408 are cataloged in academic dictionaries and databases, where it represents a distinct morpheme or word within the Tangut lexicon, though its precise semantic range often requires specialized linguistic research.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+18408 |
| 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 | 𘐈 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𘐈 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x98 0x90 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD821 0xDC08 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00018408 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud821\udc08 |
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 | 436.13 |
| kTGT_MergedSrc | L2008-5758 |