U+170F8 "𗃸" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+170F8 "𗃸" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific character from the Tangut script, an ancient writing system used for the now-extinct Tangut language spoken during the Western Xia dynasty in medieval China. This ideograph, categorized under the Tangut block of the Unicode Standard, represents a logographic symbol with a distinct semantic meaning, though its exact translation or usage often requires specialized scholarly research due to the complexity of the script and the limited number of surviving texts. Its inclusion in Unicode helps preserve and digitally encode a fragment of a once-flourishing civilization's written heritage.

General Properties

Code Point	U+170F8
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	𗃸
HTML Hex Encoding	𗃸
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x97 0x83 0xB8
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD81C 0xDCF8
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000170F8
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud81c\udcf8

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	9.12
kTGT_MergedSrc	L2008-3413