U+18502 "𘔂" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𘔂
U+18502 "𘔂" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific ideograph from the Tangut script, which was used to write the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty in medieval China. This character is part of a large block of Tangut ideographs encoded in Unicode to preserve and digitize this historical writing system, with the '#' in its name serving as a placeholder for its conventional ordering number in the official character set. Like other Tangut characters, it represents a single morpheme or word, and its precise meaning is determined by scholarly reconstruction from historical texts, though its exact definition may be unknown or context-dependent outside of specialized linguistic research.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+18502 |
| 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 | 𘔂 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𘔂 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x98 0x94 0x82 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD821 0xDD02 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00018502 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud821\udd02 |
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 | 486.13 |
| kTGT_MergedSrc | L2008-4662 |