U+18797 "𘞗" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𘞗
U+18797 "𘞗" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific glyph within the Tangut script, an ancient writing system used for the extinct Tangut language that flourished during the Western Xia dynasty in China from the 11th to 13th centuries. This ideograph represents one of thousands of complex logographic characters in the Tangut script, which is known for its intricate strokes and large character count, rivaling even Chinese in its scale. The character is part of the Tangut block in Unicode, encoded to preserve and enable digital study of this historical writing system, though its exact meaning and pronunciation remain subjects of ongoing scholarly research due to the limited number of surviving texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+18797 |
| 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 | 𘞗 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𘞗 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x98 0x9E 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD821 0xDF97 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00018797 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud821\udf97 |
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 | 711.10 |
| kTGT_MergedSrc | L2008-0001 |