U+18562 "𘕢" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𘕢
U+18562 "𘕢" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific logogram from the extinct Tangut script, which was used to write the Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty in medieval China. This character belongs to the Tangut block of Unicode and is one of thousands of ideographs in that script, each representing a distinct word or morpheme. Its exact meaning and pronunciation have been partially reconstructed by scholars through analysis of historical texts and dictionaries, though many Tangut characters remain the subject of ongoing philological research. In digital contexts, U+18562 enables the encoding and display of this ancient script, preserving access to a unique writing system that flourished between the 11th and 16th centuries.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+18562 |
| 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 | 𘕢 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𘕢 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x98 0x95 0xA2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD821 0xDD62 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00018562 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud821\udd62 |
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 | 519.14 |
| kTGT_MergedSrc | L2008-5541 |