U+18520 "𘔠" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+18520 "𘔠" Tangut Ideograph-# is a single character from the Tangut script, a complex writing system used for the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty in medieval China. This particular ideograph, like all Tangut characters, is highly intricate, often consisting of numerous strokes arranged in a dense square form, and it represents a specific word or morpheme from the Tangut lexicon. While its exact meaning and pronunciation are not widely known outside of specialist philological research, its inclusion in Unicode helps preserve and enable the digital study of this historical script, which was deciphered primarily through the analysis of bilingual texts and dictionaries.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+18520 |
| 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 | 𘔠 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𘔠 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x98 0x94 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD821 0xDD20 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00018520 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud821\udd20 |
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 | 490.16 |
| kTGT_MergedSrc | L2008-1774 |