U+18504 "𘔄" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𘔄
U+18504 "𘔄" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific glyph from the Tangut script, an ancient writing system used for the extinct Tangut language spoken during the Western Xia dynasty (1038–1227). This ideograph represents a unique logographic symbol that was part of a large and complex script created by imperial decree, containing thousands of characters designed to write the Tibeto-Burman language of the Tangut people. Its precise meaning and phonetic value have been reconstructed by scholars through painstaking analysis of bilingual texts and dictionaries, though many Tangut characters remain incompletely understood due to the script’s complexity and the language’s eventual disappearance.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+18504 |
| 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 | 𘔄 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𘔄 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x98 0x94 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD821 0xDD04 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00018504 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud821\udd04 |
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 | 486.15 |
| kTGT_MergedSrc | L2008-4627 |