U+18722 "𘜢" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𘜢
U+18722 "𘜢" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific character from the Tangut script, an ancient writing system used for the extinct Tangut language spoken during the Western Xia dynasty (11th-13th centuries). This ideograph is part of the Tangut block in Unicode, which encodes thousands of logographic symbols that were deciphered from manuscripts and inscriptions. The character itself represents a unique lexical or phonetic value, though its exact meaning in modern scholarship is often derived from comparative analysis of known Tangut texts and dictionaries. Its inclusion in Unicode allows for digital preservation and study of this historical language, aiding researchers in understanding the culture and administration of the Tangut Empire.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+18722 |
| 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 | 𘜢 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𘜢 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x98 0x9C 0xA2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD821 0xDF22 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00018722 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud821\udf22 |
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 | 665.12 |
| kTGT_MergedSrc | L2008-6028 |