U+18545 "𘕅" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+18545 "𘕅" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific graphical symbol belonging to the Tangut script, an extinct logographic writing system historically used during the Western Xia dynasty (11th-14th centuries) to write the now-dead Tangut language. This particular character is part of the Tangut Ideographs block in the Unicode Standard, which encodes thousands of these complex, often square-shaped characters that were devised by imperial decree to assert cultural and political independence from neighboring Chinese empires. While the exact meaning or pronunciation of U+18545 may be unconfirmed or designated solely by its numerical index in modern research databases, its existence in Unicode allows scholars to digitally preserve, analyze, and study the Tangut script, facilitating ongoing efforts to reconstruct the language and its literature from surviving manuscripts and steles.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
𘕅 |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
𘕅 |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xF0 0x98 0x95 0x85 |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0xD821 0xDD45 |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x00018545 |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\ud821\udd45 |
Unicode Properties