U+18565 "𘕥" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𘕥
U+18565 "𘕥" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific symbol from the Tangut script, an ancient writing system used to record the extinct Tangut language spoken by the Tangut people of the Western Xia dynasty in northwest China. This ideograph was encoded in Unicode as part of the Tangut block to support scholarly research and digital preservation of the script, which was deciphered from manuscripts and inscriptions dating from the 11th to 16th centuries. Its exact meaning remains the subject of ongoing linguistic study, as the character represents a logographic unit within a complex writing system that combines semantic and phonetic elements.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+18565 |
| 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 | 𘕥 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𘕥 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x98 0x95 0xA5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD821 0xDD65 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00018565 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud821\udd65 |
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 | 521.13 |
| kTGT_MergedSrc | L2008-5773 |