U+1711D "𗄝" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𗄝
U+1711D "𗄝" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific encoded character from the Tangut script, a complex logographic writing system used for the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty (11th-13th centuries). This character, which lacks a standardized English meaning due to the incomplete decipherment of the script, is part of the Tangut block in the Unicode Standard, added to support digital preservation and scholarly research of this historical language. Its unique glyph structure, composed of intricate strokes common to Tangut ideographs, represents a semantic unit that would have corresponded to a word or morpheme in the Tangut lexicon, though its exact reading and translation remain a subject of ongoing linguistic study.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1711D |
| 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 | 𗄝 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𗄝 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x97 0x84 0x9D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81C 0xDD1D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001711D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81c\udd1d |
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 | 12.7 |
| kTGT_MergedSrc | L2008-4505 |