U+17008 "𗀈" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𗀈

U+17008 "𗀈" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific character from the Tangut script, an ancient writing system used for the Tangut language spoken during the Western Xia dynasty (1038-1227) in present-day northwestern China. This ideograph was originally part of a complex logographic writing system comprising thousands of characters, and its precise meaning or phonetic value is numbered (#) in the Unicode standard to indicate it is one of the many Tangut characters that have been encoded but may not yet be fully deciphered or widely known outside of expert scholarship. The character "𗀈" appears in the Tangut block of the Unicode Standard, allowing for its digital representation and study by linguists and historians researching the extinct Tangut civilization and its written records.

General Properties

Code Point U+17008
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 𗀈
HTML Hex Encoding 𗀈
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x97 0x80 0x88
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD81C 0xDC08
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00017008
C/C++/Java Escape \ud81c\udc08

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 L2008-0087