U+18616 "𘘖" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𘘖

U+18616 "𘘖" Tangut Ideograph-# is a component of the Tangut script, a logographic writing system used during the Tangut Empire (1038–1227 CE) to record the extinct Tangut language. This specific ideograph, like others in the Tangut block, represents a standalone word or morpheme and has been assigned a provisional generic label by Unicode due to the ongoing scholarly decipherment of the Tangut script. The character is part of the broader Unicode Tangut block (U+17000 to U+187FF), which was added to support the study and digital preservation of historical Tangut texts, many of which were discovered in sites like the remote Khara-Khoto fortress. Its incarnation represents a unique piece of the complex Tangut writing system, which is characterized by its large repertoire of over 6,000 known ideographs.

General Properties

Code Point U+18616
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 𘘖
HTML Hex Encoding 𘘖
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x98 0x98 0x96
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD821 0xDE16
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00018616
C/C++/Java Escape \ud821\ude16

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 564.13
kTGT_MergedSrc L2008-1677