U+18503 "𘔃" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+18503 "𘔃" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific glyph from the Tangut script, a historical writing system used to record the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty (1038–1227 CE). This particular ideograph remains partially unidentified or not fully deciphered in modern scholarship, as indicated by the "#" in its standard name, with its precise meaning and phonetic value still subject to ongoing research among philologists and historians. The character is part of the Tangut block within Unicode, encoded to preserve and facilitate digital study of this complex logographic script, which features over six thousand known characters.

General Properties

Code Point	U+18503
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	𘔃
HTML Hex Encoding	𘔃
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x98 0x94 0x83
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD821 0xDD03
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00018503
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud821\udd03

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	486.14
kTGT_MergedSrc	L2008-4670