U+17004 "𗀄" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𗀄

U+17004 "𗀄" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific character from the Tangut script, an ancient writing system used by the Tangut people of the Western Xia dynasty in China from the 11th to the 13th centuries. This ideograph is part of the Tangut block within Unicode, which was included in version 9.0 of the standard in 2016 to support the digital encoding of this historical script. The character represents a unique logogram from the Tangut language, which remains only partially deciphered by modern scholars, and its exact meaning or phonetic value is often denoted by a placeholder number due to the ongoing research needed to fully interpret the script. The inclusion of U+17004 in Unicode preserves an essential piece of cultural heritage, allowing for the study and digital representation of Tangut texts and artifacts.

General Properties

Code Point U+17004
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 𗀄
HTML Hex Encoding 𗀄
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x97 0x80 0x84
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD81C 0xDC04
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00017004
C/C++/Java Escape \ud81c\udc04

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 1.8
kTGT_MergedSrc L2008-0026