U+18799 "𘞙" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+18799 "𘞙" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific character from the historical Tangut script, which was used to write the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty (1038–1227) in present-day northwestern China. This ideograph, like all Tangut characters, is composed of complex strokes that represent a single syllable or morpheme, and it is part of a large block of over six thousand characters encoded in Unicode to preserve and digitally represent this dead logographic writing system. Its precise meaning or phonetic value is not immediately apparent from its glyph alone, as the Tangut script is not fully deciphered, but it contributes to the scholarly effort to reconstruct the language and culture of the Tangut people through digital archiving and textual analysis.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
𘞙 |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
𘞙 |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xF0 0x98 0x9E 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0xD821 0xDF99 |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x00018799 |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\ud821\udf99 |
Unicode Properties