U+18736 "𘜶" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𘜶
U+18736 "𘜶" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific glyph from the Tangut script, a historical writing system used to record the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty (1038–1227). This character belongs to the Tangut block within Unicode's Supplementary Multilingual Plane, and its exact meaning remains unclear as many Tangut ideographs have not yet been fully deciphered by scholars. The Tangut script, which was invented by imperial decree and consists of thousands of logographic characters, fell out of use after the Mongol conquest, and modern efforts to decode it rely on fragmentary bilingual texts and dictionaries, making each ideograph like U+18736 a small piece of a larger linguistic puzzle.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+18736 |
| 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 | 𘜶 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𘜶 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x98 0x9C 0xB6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD821 0xDF36 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00018736 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud821\udf36 |
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 | 674.14 |
| kTGT_MergedSrc | L2008-4457 |