U+18445 "𘑅" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+18445 "𘑅" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific glyph from the Tangut script, an ancient logographic writing system used to record the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty in medieval China. This character represents one of thousands of Tangut ideographs, each symbolizing a word or morpheme, and its exact meaning and pronunciation, while partially understood through scholarly reconstruction, are often identified by a numeric index within the Unicode standard due to the incomplete decipherment of the script. The inclusion of U+18445 in Unicode facilitates digital preservation and research of this historical writing system, allowing linguists and historians to study, transcribe, and share Tangut texts across modern platforms.

General Properties

Code Point	U+18445
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	𘑅
HTML Hex Encoding	𘑅
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x98 0x91 0x85
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD821 0xDC45
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00018445
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud821\udc45

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	L2008-5631