U+18496 "𘒖" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+18496 "𘒖" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific character from the Tangut script, an extinct writing system used to record the Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty (1038-1227) in what is now northwestern China. This character represents a single ideographic unit, with its precise meaning typically reconstructed through historical texts and linguistic analysis, as the script uses a complex combination of strokes to form logograms rather than an alphabet. The "-#" notation in its name indicates that this character has not yet been assigned a definitive semantic or phonetic value in published dictionaries, making it part of the vast set of Tangut characters that scholars continue to study and decode.

General Properties

Code Point	U+18496
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	𘒖
HTML Hex Encoding	𘒖
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x98 0x92 0x96
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD821 0xDC96
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00018496
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud821\udc96

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	458.16
kTGT_MergedSrc	L2008-1535