U+18656 "𘙖" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𘙖
U+18656 "𘙖" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific glyph from the Tangut script, an ancient writing system used for the extinct Tangut language spoken in the Western Xia dynasty (11th-13th centuries). This ideograph represents a single logographic character, one of thousands documented in the Unicode Standard within the Tangut block, which was added to enable digital preservation and study of this historical script. The exact meaning or phonetic value of this particular character would be determined by its context in Tangut texts, as many ideographs remain subjects of scholarly research due to the limited number of surviving manuscripts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+18656 |
| 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 | 𘙖 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𘙖 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x98 0x99 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD821 0xDE56 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00018656 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud821\ude56 |
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 | 568.15 |
| kTGT_MergedSrc | L2008-1773 |