U+18699 "𘚙" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𘚙
U+18699 "𘚙" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific glyph from the Tangut script, a historical logographic writing system used to record the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia Empire (1038–1227). This particular ideograph represents one of thousands of characters in the Tangut repertoire, which was deciphered in part through the study of multilingual inscriptions and dictionaries. As of Unicode version 9.0, this character was included in the Tangut block to facilitate digital preservation and scholarly research, though its precise meaning and pronunciation remain to be fully understood by linguists.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+18699 |
| 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 | 𘚙 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𘚙 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x98 0x9A 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD821 0xDE99 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00018699 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud821\ude99 |
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 | 591.13 |
| kTGT_MergedSrc | L2008-1681 |