U+1709A "ð—‚š" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

ð—‚š

U+1709A "ð—‚š" Tangut Ideograph-# is a single graphical unit from the Tangut script, a complex writing system used from the 11th to 16th centuries for the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty in northwestern China. This ideograph represents a specific logographic character from a massive syllabary of over 6,000 known Tangut signs, each typically encoding a syllable in the Tangut language. The Tangut script, crafted by imperial decree and famously cryptic to outsiders, was deciphered over the 20th century through comparative study of bilingual inscriptions and multilingual dictionaries. As part of the Unicode Standard, this character is encoded in the plane of the Supplementary Ideographic Plane (SIP), allowing for its digital representation and study across modern computing platforms. Its precise semantic meaning is a matter of ongoing scholarship, as many Tangut characters still require further phonological and semantic reconstruction.

General Properties

Code Point U+1709A
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 𗂚
HTML Hex Encoding 𗂚
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x97 0x82 0x9A
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD81C 0xDC9A
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001709A
C/C++/Java Escape \ud81c\udc9a

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 L2008-1905