U+18709 "𘜉" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+18709 "𘜉" Tangut Ideograph-# is a single, specific character from the Tangut script, an ancient writing system used to record the extinct Tangut language spoken during the Western Xia dynasty (1038–1227) in medieval China. This ideograph, like all Tangut characters, is composed of complex strokes and represents a distinct logographic unit, though its exact pronunciation and meaning are known only through modern scholarly reconstruction from excavated texts and dictionaries. Its inclusion in the Unicode Standard as one of over 6,000 Tangut ideographs allows for digital preservation and study of this historical script, enabling researchers to encode, display, and analyze these rare symbols in electronic documents and databases.

General Properties

Code Point	U+18709
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	𘜉
HTML Hex Encoding	𘜉
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x98 0x9C 0x89
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD821 0xDF09
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00018709
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud821\udf09

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	655.8
kTGT_MergedSrc	L2008-1427