U+17108 "𗄈" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𗄈
U+17108 "𗄈" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific glyph within the Tangut script, a complex logographic writing system used for the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty (1038–1227). This particular character is part of the Tangut Ideographs block, which encodes thousands of symbols that represent words or morphemes, often with distinct phonetic and semantic values. While the precise meaning of "𗄈" is not universally defined in modern scholarly resources, it contributes to the growing digital catalog of Tangut characters, enabling researchers to study and preserve this historical script through Unicode standardization.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+17108 |
| 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 | 𗄈 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𗄈 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x97 0x84 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81C 0xDD08 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00017108 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81c\udd08 |
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 | 11.11 |
| kTGT_MergedSrc | L2008-0009 |