U+18442 "𘑂" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𘑂
U+18442 "𘑂" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific glyph from the Tangut script, an ancient writing system used for the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty (1038–1227). This ideograph is part of a large block of Tangut characters encoded in the Supplementary Multilingual Plane, representing a logographic symbol that carries a unique phonetic and semantic value within its historical context. The character was digitized for modern computing to aid in the scholarly study and preservation of Tangut texts, with the '#' in its name indicating an interim label until its precise meaning in reconstructed Tangut is fully confirmed by linguists.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+18442 |
| 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 | 𘑂 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𘑂 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x98 0x91 0x82 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD821 0xDC42 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00018442 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud821\udc42 |
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 | L2008-5213 |