U+18440 "𘑀" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𘑀
U+18440 "𘑀" Tangut Ideograph-# is one of the thousands of logographic symbols used to write the extinct Tangut language, which was spoken by the Tangut people of the Western Xia Empire in northwestern China from the 11th to the 16th centuries. This particular ideograph represents a specific word or morpheme in the Tangut script, a complex writing system modeled after Chinese characters but with distinct stroke patterns and phonetic principles. Codified in the Unicode Standard to support the digital preservation of historical scripts, U+18440 allows scholars and enthusiasts to accurately record, study, and display Tangut texts, thereby aiding in the linguistic and cultural understanding of the Tangut civilization.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+18440 |
| 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 | 𘑀 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𘑀 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x98 0x91 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD821 0xDC40 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00018440 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud821\udc40 |
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 | 436.16 |
| kTGT_MergedSrc | L2008-5378 |