U+18602 "𘘂" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𘘂
U+18602 "𘘂" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific character from the Tangut script, a historical writing system used for the extinct Tangut language spoken during the Western Xia dynasty (1038–1227) in what is now northwestern China. This ideograph represents a distinct syllable or morpheme within the Tangut lexicon, forming part of a larger set of over 6,000 unique characters that were systematically encoded in the Unicode Standard to preserve and enable digital research of this ancient script. Its meaning and exact phonetic value are typically determined through scholarly analysis of surviving Tangut manuscripts, which often include Buddhist texts, legal documents, and translations from Chinese.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+18602 |
| 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 | 𘘂 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𘘂 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x98 0x98 0x82 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD821 0xDE02 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00018602 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud821\ude02 |
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 | 560.16 |
| kTGT_MergedSrc | L2008-0872 |