U+18556 "𘕖" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𘕖
U+18556 "𘕖" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific character from the Tangut script, a logographic writing system used to record the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty in historical northwestern China. This character, whose precise meaning and pronunciation are typically studied through the "Pearl in the Palm," a key Tangut-Chinese bilingual glossary, belongs to a large set of over 6,000 known Tangut ideographs. The script is notable for its complex and intricate strokes, and while the character has an assigned Unicode code point to ensure digital preservation, its exact semantic value and phonetic reading are not widely known outside specialized academic research in Tangut philology and paleography.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+18556 |
| 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 | 𘕖 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𘕖 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x98 0x95 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD821 0xDD56 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00018556 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud821\udd56 |
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 | 516.13 |
| kTGT_MergedSrc | L2008-5974 |