U+18700 "𘜀" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𘜀
U+18700 "𘜀" Tangut Ideograph-# is one of the thousands of ideographs in the Tangut script block, which was used to write the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty (1038–1227) in what is now northwestern China. This specific character represents a logographic symbol from that medieval writing system, which was deciphered in the 20th century through the study of bilingual texts and manuscripts. It is encoded in the Unicode Standard under the Tangut block to support digital preservation and scholarly research of this unique script, though its exact meaning and pronunciation may only be known to specialists in Tangut philology.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+18700 |
| 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 | 𘜀 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𘜀 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x98 0x9C 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD821 0xDF00 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00018700 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud821\udf00 |
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 | 648.12 |
| kTGT_MergedSrc | L2008-0611 |