U+18498 "𘒘" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𘒘
U+18498 "𘒘" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific glyph from the Tangut script, an ancient writing system used during the Western Xia dynasty in northwest China. This ideograph resides in the Tangut block of Unicode, which was added to the standard to support the digital preservation and study of this historically significant but complex script, which comprises thousands of logographic characters. The exact meaning and phonetic value of this particular ideograph are subjects of ongoing philological research, as scholars continue to decode and catalog the vast Tangut lexicon from surviving manuscripts and inscriptions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+18498 |
| 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 | 𘒘 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𘒘 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x98 0x92 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD821 0xDC98 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00018498 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud821\udc98 |
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 | L2008-1199 |