U+18799 "𘞙" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𘞙

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

Code Point U+18799
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 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

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 711.16
kTGT_MergedSrc L2008-1582