U+18527 "𘔧" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+18527 "𘔧" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific logographic symbol from the ancient Tangut script, which was used to write the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia Empire (1038–1227 CE) in present-day northwestern China. This ideograph, like others in the Tangut block, represents a word or morpheme and is part of a complex writing system that was deciphered in the 20th century through the study of bilingual inscriptions and dictionaries. The character itself is encoded in the Unicode Tangut block under Plane 1, and its exact meaning remains a subject of scholarly research, as the script contains thousands of characters, many of which are not fully understood.

General Properties

Code Point	U+18527
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	𘔧
HTML Hex Encoding	𘔧
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x98 0x94 0xA7
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD821 0xDD27
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00018527
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud821\udd27

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	494.7
kTGT_MergedSrc	L2008-0150