U+1704B "𗁋" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+1704B "𗁋" Tangut Ideograph-# is a logographic glyph belonging to the Tangut script, which was used to write the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty (11th–14th centuries). This specific ideograph, given the placeholder number sign in its name, represents one of over 6,000 known Tangut characters that were deciphered primarily through the Tangut–Chinese bilingual dictionary "Pearl in the Palm." Its form, composed of intricate strokes typical of Tangut writing, encodes a specific meaning or syllable from the Tangut lexicon, though the exact semantics of many such lesser-documented characters remain a focus of ongoing philological research.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1704B
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	𗁋
HTML Hex Encoding	𗁋
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x97 0x81 0x8B
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD81C 0xDC4B
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001704B
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud81c\udc4b

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	2.8
kTGT_MergedSrc	L2008-2936