U+170AB "ð—‚«" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+170AB "ð—‚«" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific logographic symbol from the Tangut script, an ancient writing system used for the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty in medieval China. This character was encoded in the Unicode Standard as part of the Tangut block, which was added in version 9.0 to preserve and digitally represent over 6,000 known Tangut ideographs. U+170AB corresponds to a particular meaning or morpheme within the Tangut lexicon, though its exact translation and usage are typically documented in scholarly works on Tangut philology, as the script was largely deciphered in the 20th century through the study of multilingual inscriptions and dictionaries. Its inclusion in Unicode enables modern digital text processing, historical research, and cross-platform representation of this rare and historically significant script.

General Properties

Code Point U+170AB
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 𗂫
HTML Hex Encoding 𗂫
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x97 0x82 0xAB
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD81C 0xDCAB
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000170AB
C/C++/Java Escape \ud81c\udcab

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 2.13
kTGT_MergedSrc L2008-2986