U+170EF "𗃯" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+170EF "𗃯" Tangut Ideograph-# is part of the Tangut script, a complex logographic writing system used to record the extinct Tangut language of the Xixia Empire (1038–1227). This specific ideograph, like other Tangut characters, was used for writing historical texts, legal documents, and Buddhist scriptures before the script fell out of use after the Mongol conquest. It was encoded in Unicode’s Tangut block to preserve and enable digital access to this ancient script, though its exact meaning is known only through scholarly reconstruction and remains one component in the vast Tangut lexicon.

General Properties

Code Point	U+170EF
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	𗃯
HTML Hex Encoding	𗃯
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x97 0x83 0xAF
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD81C 0xDCEF
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000170EF
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud81c\udcef

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	L2008-2898