U+18598 "𘖘" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𘖘
U+18598 "𘖘" Tangut Ideograph-# is a single Chinese character from the extinct Tangut script, which was used to write the Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty (1038–1227) in present-day northwestern China. This ideograph represents a specific lexical or phonetic unit within the Tangut writing system, a complex script that includes thousands of logographic characters. As part of the Tangut block in Unicode, its encoding enables digital preservation and study of this historical script, which was deciphered in the 20th century through the discovery of bilingual texts and dictionaries.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+18598 |
| 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 | 𘖘 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𘖘 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x98 0x96 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD821 0xDD98 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00018598 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud821\udd98 |
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 | 539.18 |
| kTGT_MergedSrc | L2008-5232 |