U+17044 "𗁄" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+17044 "𗁄" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific glyph belonging to the Tangut script, an extinct writing system used between the 11th and 16th centuries for the Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty. This character is part of the Tangut Ideographs block in Unicode, which encodes thousands of logographic symbols that represent entire words or morphemes, though the exact meaning of this particular ideograph may only be known to specialists. Its inclusion in the Unicode Standard ensures that historical texts containing this complex script can be accurately preserved, digitized, and studied, offering a rare window into the linguistic and cultural legacy of a lost civilization.

General Properties

Code Point	U+17044
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	𗁄
HTML Hex Encoding	𗁄
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x97 0x81 0x84
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD81C 0xDC44
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00017044
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud81c\udc44

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	L2008-3449