U+17127 "𗄧" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𗄧
U+17127 "𗄧" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific logographic symbol from the Tangut script, an extinct writing system used to record the Tangut language during the Western Xia dynasty in medieval China, primarily between the 11th and 16th centuries. This particular ideograph represents a single word or morpheme within the Tangut lexicon, which comprised over 6,000 distinct characters, making it one of the most complex scripts ever created. As part of the Tangut block in Unicode, U+17127 was added to support digital preservation and scholarly research of this historical language, allowing linguists and historians to accurately encode and analyze Tangut texts without relying on manual transcription.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+17127 |
| 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 | 𗄧 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𗄧 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x97 0x84 0xA7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81C 0xDD27 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00017127 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81c\udd27 |
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 | 12.14 |
| kTGT_MergedSrc | L2008-4549 |