U+18436 "𘐶" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+18436 "𘐶" Tangut Ideograph-# is a single character from the Tangut script, an ancient writing system used for the now extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty (1038–1227 CE). This specific ideograph belongs to the Tangut block in Unicode, which encodes thousands of logographic characters created by Emperor Li Yuanhao to record administrative, religious, and literary texts. While the exact meaning of U+18436 requires specialized scholarly analysis, each Tangut ideograph typically represents a syllable or morpheme, and this character contributes to the broader effort to digitally preserve and decipher texts carved on wooden slips, stone steles, or written in manuscripts found in the Khara-Khoto ruins.

General Properties

Code Point	U+18436
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	𘐶
HTML Hex Encoding	𘐶
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x98 0x90 0xB6
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD821 0xDC36
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00018436
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud821\udc36

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	436.15
kTGT_MergedSrc	L2008-5586