U+170B6 "𗂶" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𗂶
U+170B6 "𗂶" Tangut Ideograph-# is a historical character from the Tangut script, which was used to write the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty (1038–1227) in present-day northwestern China. This specific ideograph represents a lexical entry in the Tangut script, part of a complex logographic writing system that was deciphered in the 20th century through the study of bilingual texts and dictionaries. The Tangut script includes over 6,000 known characters, and U+170B6 is one of many encoded in the Unicode Standard’s Tangut block to preserve and enable digital research into this unique cultural heritage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+170B6 |
| 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 | 𗂶 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𗂶 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x97 0x82 0xB6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81C 0xDCB6 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000170B6 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81c\udcb6 |
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 | L2008-2568 |