U+18425 "𘐥" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𘐥

U+18425 "𘐥" Tangut Ideograph-# is part of the Tangut block, which encodes the logographic script used by the Tangut people of the Western Xia dynasty from the 11th to the 13th centuries. This specific ideograph represents a word or morpheme from the Tangut language, a now extinct Tibeto-Burman language, and its meaning has been deciphered through the study of bilingual texts and dictionaries, such as the Pearl in the Palm, though its precise semantic value may require specialized scholarly reference. As a character in a complex script with over six thousand known ideographs, it exemplifies the elaborate orthography developed for a non-Chinese language, characterized by intricate strokes and phonetic composition that often combine semantic and sound components.

General Properties

Code Point U+18425
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 𘐥
HTML Hex Encoding 𘐥
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x98 0x90 0xA5
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD821 0xDC25
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00018425
C/C++/Java Escape \ud821\udc25

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 436.14
kTGT_MergedSrc L2008-5764