U+170C9 "𗃉" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+170C9 "𗃉" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific glyph from the extinct Tangut script, which was used to write the Tangut language during the Western Xia dynasty (1038–1227) in what is now northwestern China. This character is part of the Tangut Ideographs block in Unicode, introduced to preserve and digitally encode the complex logographic writing system that scholars have been laboriously deciphering since the early 20th century. The symbol itself represents a particular morpheme or word, though the exact semantic meaning and phonetic value of many Tangut characters, including this one, remain topics of ongoing philological research.

General Properties

Code Point	U+170C9
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	𗃉
HTML Hex Encoding	𗃉
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x97 0x83 0x89
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD81C 0xDCC9
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000170C9
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud81c\udcc9

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	2.16
kTGT_MergedSrc	L2008-3451