U+17029 "𗀩" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𗀩
U+17029 "𗀩" Tangut Ideograph-# is a single character from the Tangut script, a historically significant writing system used for the extinct Tangut language spoken in the Western Xia Empire (11th-13th centuries). This particular ideograph, whose specific meaning is often identified only through specialized lexicons, represents one of thousands of Tangut logograms that were painstakingly deciphered in modern times from archaeological findings, such as the famous Tangut-Russian dictionary "The Pearl in the Palm." The character's inclusion in the Unicode standard ensures its digital preservation, allowing scholars and enthusiasts to encode, display, and study this intricate historical script in electronic documents and texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+17029 |
| 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 | 𗀩 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𗀩 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x97 0x80 0xA9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81C 0xDC29 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00017029 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81c\udc29 |
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 | 1.14 |
| kTGT_MergedSrc | L2008-0077 |