U+17079 "𗁹" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𗁹

U+17079 "𗁹" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific logogram from the Tangut script, a writing system used to document the extinct Tangut language spoken during the Western Xia dynasty (1038–1227) in what is now northwestern China. This character is part of the Tangut Ideographs block in Unicode, which encodes thousands of complex, intricately drawn characters that were officially standardized in 2016 as part of Unicode version 9.0. The Tangut script represents one of the most sophisticated and independently developed writing systems in human history, with over 6,000 known characters, and U+17079 serves as a digital placeholder for a particular semantic or phonetic meaning within that historical corpus, enabling modern scholars and linguists to study and preserve this ancient language.

General Properties

Code Point U+17079
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 𗁹
HTML Hex Encoding 𗁹
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x97 0x81 0xB9
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD81C 0xDC79
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00017079
C/C++/Java Escape \ud81c\udc79

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 2.10
kTGT_MergedSrc L2008-2977