U+17040 "𗁀" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𗁀

U+17040 "𗁀" Tangut Ideograph-# is a single glyph representing one of the thousands of logograms used to write the Tangut language, a now-extinct Tibeto-Burman language of the Tangut Empire (11th-13th centuries) in northwestern China. This particular character is part of the Tangut block of the Unicode Standard, which was added to support scholarly research and digital preservation of the Tangut script, a complex writing system with over 6,000 known characters originally inscribed on manuscripts, stelae, and wooden slips. The exact meaning of this specific ideograph is documented in Tangut lexicons and often relates to concepts from the language's bureaucratic, Buddhist, or everyday vocabulary, though its precise definition requires consultation of specialized Sinological references.

General Properties

Code Point U+17040
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 𗁀
HTML Hex Encoding 𗁀
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x97 0x81 0x80
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD81C 0xDC40
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00017040
C/C++/Java Escape \ud81c\udc40

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 2.7
kTGT_MergedSrc L2008-2946