U+17090 "𗂐" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𗂐

U+17090 "𗂐" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific glyph from the Tangut script, an ancient logographic writing system used to record the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty (1038-1227 CE). This character is part of the Tangut block in Unicode, which includes thousands of ideographs that were deciphered from historical manuscripts and inscriptions. While the exact meaning and pronunciation of U+17090 are not widely known without specialized linguistic resources, it represents a lexical item or morpheme derived from the complex, highly structured Tangut writing system, which bears no direct relation to Chinese characters despite a superficial visual resemblance. Its inclusion in the Unicode Standard ensures that this fragment of a lost culture can be digitally preserved, studied, and displayed across modern computing platforms.

General Properties

Code Point U+17090
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 𗂐
HTML Hex Encoding 𗂐
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x97 0x82 0x90
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD81C 0xDC90
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00017090
C/C++/Java Escape \ud81c\udc90

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 2.12
kTGT_MergedSrc L2008-2831