U+18606 "𘘆" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𘘆
U+18606 "𘘆" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific glyph from the Tangut script, a historical writing system used during the Western Xia dynasty (1038–1227) to record the extinct Tangut language. This character is one of thousands of ideographs in the Tangut block of Unicode, which was encoded to preserve and enable digital study of this unique logographic script. The exact meaning and phonetic value of U+18606 are determined by scholarly analysis of Tangut manuscripts, typically representing a single syllable or concept in the language. Its inclusion in Unicode facilitates academic research, digital typography, and the archival preservation of texts from this once powerful but now vanished Central Asian empire.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+18606 |
| 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 | 𘘆 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𘘆 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x98 0x98 0x86 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD821 0xDE06 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00018606 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud821\ude06 |
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 | 561.11 |
| kTGT_MergedSrc | L2008-0941 |