U+18623 "𘘣" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𘘣

U+18623 "𘘣" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific glyph from the ancient Tangut script, which was used to write the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty in what is now northwestern China. Representing a single logographic character, it is encoded in the Tangut block of Unicode, which was added to the standard in 2016 to facilitate digital preservation and scholarly study of this complex writing system. The character itself corresponds to a particular word or morpheme in Tangut, though its exact meaning often requires expert analysis of historical manuscripts, as the script consists of thousands of distinct ideographs with unique strokes and compositions. Its inclusion in Unicode allows modern researchers to accurately transcribe, search, and share Tangut texts in digital formats, supporting ongoing efforts to decode and understand this lost language and its cultural heritage.

General Properties

Code Point U+18623
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 𘘣
HTML Hex Encoding 𘘣
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x98 0x98 0xA3
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD821 0xDE23
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00018623
C/C++/Java Escape \ud821\ude23

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 567.9
kTGT_MergedSrc L2008-1278