U+170DC "𗃜" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𗃜

U+170DC "𗃜" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific glyph from the Tangut script, an ancient logographic writing system used for the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty (1038–1227 CE) in what is now northwestern China. This character belongs to a large block of Tangut ideographs encoded in Unicode's Supplementary Multilingual Plane, which were deciphered from historical manuscripts and inscriptions. The exact meaning or phonetic value of U+170DC is not commonly documented outside specialized linguistic research, as the Tangut script comprises thousands of complex characters, many still under scholarly analysis. Its inclusion in Unicode facilitates digital preservation and study of this historically significant script, enabling researchers to represent, search, and analyze Tangut texts in modern computing environments.

General Properties

Code Point U+170DC
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 𗃜
HTML Hex Encoding 𗃜
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x97 0x83 0x9C
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD81C 0xDCDC
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000170DC
C/C++/Java Escape \ud81c\udcdc

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 L2008-3410