U+18459 "𘑙" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𘑙
U+18459 "𘑙" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific character from the Tangut script, an ancient writing system used by the Tangut people of the Western Xia dynasty (1038–1227) in what is now northwestern China. This ideograph represents a single logographic unit from the Tangut language, which was deciphered in the early 20th century through the study of bilingual texts, such as the Tangut-Chinese glossary "Pearl in the Palm." The character's exact meaning and pronunciation are documented in modern dictionaries of the Tangut script, contributing to scholarly efforts to reconstruct and understand this extinct language and its rich literary and administrative records.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+18459 |
| 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 | 𘑙 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𘑙 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x98 0x91 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD821 0xDC59 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00018459 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud821\udc59 |
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 | 438.16 |
| kTGT_MergedSrc | L2008-1458 |