U+17057 "𗁗" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+17057 "𗁗" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific character from the Tangut script, an ancient writing system used to record the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty in northwest China from the 11th to the 16th centuries. This ideograph is part of the Tangut block in Unicode, which contains thousands of logographic characters that were decoded primarily through the study of the Tangut dictionary, "The Pearl in the Palm." While the exact meaning of individual characters like U+17057 may not be widely publicized, they represent the complex, siniform script that was deciphered in the 20th century by linguists such as Nikolai Nevsky. The inclusion of this character in Unicode helps preserve and digitize a significant piece of historical linguistic heritage.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
𗁗 |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
𗁗 |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xF0 0x97 0x81 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0xD81C 0xDC57 |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x00017057 |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\ud81c\udc57 |
Unicode Properties