U+18557 "𘕗" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𘕗
U+18557 "𘕗" Tangut Ideograph-# is a single character from the Tangut script, which was used to write the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty in medieval China. This particular ideograph is part of the large repertoire of Tangut characters encoded in the Unicode Standard, specifically within the Tangut Ideographs block. While the exact meaning of "𘕗" requires specialized knowledge of Tangut philology and is not commonly known, it represents a logographic unit that would have held a specific lexical or grammatical function in Tangut texts, which are primarily preserved in Buddhist scriptures, legal documents, and historical records.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+18557 |
| 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 | 𘕗 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𘕗 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x98 0x95 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD821 0xDD57 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00018557 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud821\udd57 |
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 | 516.12 |
| kTGT_MergedSrc | L2008-5930 |