U+18516 "𘔖" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+18516 "𘔖" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific logographic symbol from the Tangut script, an ancient writing system used to record the extinct Tangut language spoken during the Western Xia dynasty in northwestern China. This character is part of a large block of Tangut ideographs that were encoded in Unicode to preserve and facilitate digital study of the script, which was deciphered partially using multilingual Buddhist texts. The exact meaning of this particular ideograph is tied to a unique lexical entry in the Tangut dictionary, representing a word or concept from that civilization's literature, though its specific definition requires consultation of specialized philological resources.

General Properties

Code Point	U+18516
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	𘔖
HTML Hex Encoding	𘔖
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x98 0x94 0x96
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD821 0xDD16
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00018516
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud821\udd16

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	490.12
kTGT_MergedSrc	L2008-1678