U+18D08 "𘴈" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+18D08 "𘴈" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific glyph from the Tangut script, an ancient writing system used to record the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty (1038–1227) in what is now northwestern China. This character, identified as a Tangut ideograph with the placeholder numeral "#" indicating its precise meaning and phonetic value are not fully known, belongs to the Tangut block of Unicode (U+17000–U+18AFF). It represents one of the thousands of complex logographic characters that were deciphered from manuscripts and inscriptions, primarily through the study of bilingual texts like the Tangut-Chinese glossary, contributing to ongoing scholarly efforts to understand this unique and historically significant script.

General Properties

Code Point	U+18D08
Version Added	13.0
Name	Tangut Ideograph-#
Block	Tangut Supplement
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𘴈
HTML Hex Encoding	𘴈
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x98 0xB4 0x88
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD823 0xDD08
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00018D08
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud823\udd08

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	L2008-4456