U+18409 "𘐉" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𘐉
U+18409 "𘐉" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific symbol belonging to the Tangut script, a historical writing system used for the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty (1038–1227) in what is now northwestern China. This character is one of thousands of logographic ideographs in the Tangut block of Unicode, which was added to encode this complex script for digital preservation and scholarly research. Each Tangut ideograph represents a distinct morpheme or word, and while the exact meaning of U+18409 requires linguistic analysis from surviving Tangut texts, it is part of the rich corpus of the language that was deciphered through dictionaries like the Tangut translation of the "Pearl in the Palm."
General Properties
| Code Point | U+18409 |
| 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 | 𘐉 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𘐉 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x98 0x90 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD821 0xDC09 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00018409 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud821\udc09 |
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 | L2008-5791 |