U+18665 "𘙥" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+18665 "𘙥" Tangut Ideograph-# is a single logogram from the extinct Tangut script, which was used to write the Tangut language during the Western Xia dynasty (1038–1227) in present-day northwestern China. This particular ideograph, like all Tangut characters, is highly complex in structure, composed of multiple strokes and components that represent a specific word or morpheme in the language, though its exact meaning may not be fully decoded or glossed in modern databases due to the ongoing, painstaking work of deciphering the nearly 6,000 unique characters of the script. As part of the Tangut block in Unicode, this character helps preserve a fragment of a once-lost civilization’s written heritage, allowing digital storage and display of texts that were vital for administrative, religious, and literary purposes in the empire before its fall.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
𘙥 |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
𘙥 |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xF0 0x98 0x99 0xA5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0xD821 0xDE65 |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x00018665 |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\ud821\ude65 |
Unicode Properties