U+18712 "𘜒" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+18712 "𘜒" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific logographic symbol from the Tangut script, an ancient writing system used to record the Tangut language spoken during the Western Xia dynasty in medieval China. This character represents a single Tangut ideograph, which functions similarly to a Chinese character by conveying a unique word or morpheme, though its exact meaning and pronunciation remain the subject of ongoing scholarly research due to the script’s complex and largely undeciphered nature. As part of the Tangut block in Unicode, its encoding facilitates digital preservation and study of this historical writing system.

General Properties

Code Point	U+18712
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	𘜒
HTML Hex Encoding	𘜒
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x98 0x9C 0x92
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD821 0xDF12
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00018712
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud821\udf12

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	659.10
kTGT_MergedSrc	L2008-0743