U+18497 "𘒗" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𘒗
U+18497 "𘒗" Tangut Ideograph-# is a component of the Tangut script, a logographic writing system used to record the extinct Tangut language during the Western Xia dynasty (11th–13th centuries) in what is now northwestern China. This specific ideograph is one of thousands of characters from the Tangut repertoire that were encoded in Unicode starting with version 9.0 in 2016, aiding scholars in digital preservation and study of historical texts. The character represents a unique lexical unit or morpheme from the Tangut language, though its exact pronunciation and meaning may require reference to specialized Tangut dictionaries or linguistic research due to the language's limited modern understanding.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+18497 |
| 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 | 𘒗 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𘒗 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x98 0x92 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD821 0xDC97 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00018497 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud821\udc97 |
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 | 458.17 |
| kTGT_MergedSrc | L2008-1095 |