U+18789 "𘞉" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𘞉
U+18789 "𘞉" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific ideograph from the Tangut script, a complex logographic writing system used to record the extinct Tangut language during the Western Xia dynasty in medieval China. This character belongs to the Tangut Ideographs block in Unicode, which was added to support the digital encoding of thousands of unique Tangut symbols that were deciphered from historical manuscripts. Each Tangut ideograph, including U+18789, represents a distinct morpheme or word, and its precise meaning is tied to the semantic and phonetic structure of the Tangut language, requiring specialized knowledge of historical linguistics and paleography for interpretation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+18789 |
| 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 | 𘞉 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𘞉 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x98 0x9E 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD821 0xDF89 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00018789 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud821\udf89 |
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 | 703.13 |
| kTGT_MergedSrc | L2008-0262 |