U+18509 "𘔉" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𘔉
U+18509 "𘔉" Tangut Ideograph-# is a logogram from the extinct Tangut script, which was used to write the Tangut language spoken by the Tangut people of the Western Xia dynasty (11th–13th centuries) in present-day northwestern China. This character is part of the Tangut Ideographs block in Unicode, specifically designated for representing a single Tangut word or concept, though its exact meaning and pronunciation are not fully deciphered and remain a subject of scholarly philological research. Its inclusion in Unicode helps preserve and enable digital study of this unique and historically significant writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+18509 |
| 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 | 𘔉 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𘔉 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x98 0x94 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD821 0xDD09 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00018509 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud821\udd09 |
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 | 486.21 |
| kTGT_MergedSrc | L2008-4628 |