U+170E9 "𗃩" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+170E9 "𗃩" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific character from the Tangut script, a logographic writing system used during the Western Xia dynasty (1038–1227) to record the extinct Tangut language. This ideograph represents a single linguistic unit, though its exact meaning or reading in Tangut is often not defined in standard summaries due to the script's highly complex structure and the limited number of fully deciphered characters. Part of the Tangut block in Unicode, which encodes over 6,000 such ideographs, this character helps preserve the historical and scholarly effort required to study and reconstruct the language, and its distinct visual form reflects the intricate, densely folded strokes typical of Tangut writing.

General Properties

Code Point	U+170E9
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	𗃩
HTML Hex Encoding	𗃩
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x97 0x83 0xA9
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD81C 0xDCE9
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000170E9
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud81c\udce9

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	9.10
kTGT_MergedSrc	L2008-2319