U+18609 "𘘉" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𘘉
U+18609 "𘘉" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific character from the Tangut script, a historical logographic writing system used for the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty (1038–1227) in present-day northwestern China. This character, identified by its Unicode code point and assigned the placeholder name Tangut Ideograph-# pending official identification, belongs to the Tangut block within the Unicode Standard, which encodes over 6,000 known Tangut characters. Its precise meaning and pronunciation remain undetermined by scholars, as the character is one of many in the Tangut repertoire that have not yet been linked to specific words or phonetic values due to incomplete decipherment of the script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+18609 |
| 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 | 𘘉 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𘘉 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x98 0x98 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD821 0xDE09 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00018609 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud821\ude09 |
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 | 561.15 |
| kTGT_MergedSrc | L2008-0854 |