U+170DB "𗃛" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𗃛
U+170DB "𗃛" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific logogram from the ancient Tangut script, which was used to write the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty (1038–1227) in northwestern China. This character was officially encoded in the Unicode Standard as part of the Tangut block in version 9.0, released in 2016, and it represents one of over six thousand known Tangut characters. While its exact meaning and pronunciation are not widely documented in standard references, it is a crucially preserved piece of a complex writing system that scholars continue to decipher through surviving manuscripts and inscriptions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+170DB |
| 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 | 𗃛 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𗃛 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x97 0x83 0x9B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81C 0xDCDB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000170DB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81c\udcdb |
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 | 9.7 |
| kTGT_MergedSrc | L2008-3554 |