U+17043 "𗁃" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+17043 "𗁃" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific symbol from the Tangut script, a historical writing system used to record the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty (1038–1227) in present-day northwestern China. This ideograph is part of the Tangut block in Unicode, which was added to the standard to preserve and digitally represent these rare and complex characters, each of which corresponds to a unique Tangut word or morpheme. While the precise meaning of this particular ideograph is not included in its basic Unicode description, its inclusion helps scholars and linguists study Tangut texts, manuscripts, and the empire's cultural heritage through modern digital encoding.

General Properties

Code Point	U+17043
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	𗁃
HTML Hex Encoding	𗁃
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x97 0x81 0x83
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD81C 0xDC43
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00017043
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud81c\udc43

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	L2008-3486