U+17053 "𗁓" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+17053 "𗁓" Tangut Ideograph-# is a single ideograph from the Tangut script, a historical writing system used for the extinct Tangut language spoken during the Western Xia dynasty from the 11th to 13th centuries. This character, like all Tangut ideographs, is composed of complex strokes and components that represent a specific word or morpheme, though its exact meaning is often determined through scholarly reconstruction based on the small corpus of surviving manuscripts and dictionaries. As part of the Tangut block in Unicode, U+17053 enables digital preservation and study of this medieval Sino-Tibetan language, allowing researchers to store, display, and analyze texts that were once only available in physical artifacts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+17053
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	𗁓
HTML Hex Encoding	𗁓
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x97 0x81 0x93
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD81C 0xDC53
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00017053
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud81c\udc53

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	2.9
kTGT_MergedSrc	L2008-2553