U+18705 "𘜅" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+18705 "𘜅" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific symbol from the Tangut script, a logographic writing system used to record the extinct Tangut language spoken by the Tangut people during the Western Xia dynasty in medieval China. This particular ideograph, classified under the Tangut block of the Unicode standard, represents a distinct linguistic or semantic unit, though its exact meaning and pronunciation are often reconstructed through scholarly analysis of ancient texts. The character's inclusion in Unicode facilitates the digital preservation and study of this historically significant script, which was deciphered in the 20th century and remains a focus of philological research.

General Properties

Code Point	U+18705
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	𘜅
HTML Hex Encoding	𘜅
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x98 0x9C 0x85
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD821 0xDF05
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00018705
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud821\udf05

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	653.17
kTGT_MergedSrc	L2008-0383