U+17159 "ð—…™" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ð—…™
U+17159 "ð—…™" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific character from the Tangut script, an ancient writing system used to record the extinct Tangut language spoken in the Western Xia dynasty (1038–1227 CE). This ideograph represents a unique logographic or ideographic concept within the Tangut corpus of over 6,000 known characters, each consisting of complex strokes that often encode semantic and phonetic components. The character is part of the Unicode Standard's Tangut block, which was added to enable digital preservation and scholarly study of this historical script, though its precise meaning or pronunciation requires contextual analysis from surviving Tangut texts and dictionaries.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+17159 |
| 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 | 𗅙 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𗅙 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x97 0x85 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81C 0xDD59 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00017159 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81c\udd59 |
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 | 17.10 |
| kTGT_MergedSrc | L2008-2363 |