U+1717B "ð—…»" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+1717B "ð—…»" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific encoded glyph representing a single logogram from the extinct Tangut script, which was used to write the Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty in medieval China. This character is part of the Tangut Ideographs block in Unicode, a collection designed to digitally preserve over six thousand distinct Tangut symbols. The Tangut script, devised in 1036 by the scholar Yeli Renrong under Emperor Li Yuanhao, is composed of complex, highly stylized strokes that resemble Chinese characters but with a unique construction principle. The exact meaning of U+1717B is not widely established in public knowledge, as comprehensive decipherment of the Tangut lexicon remains an ongoing scholarly challenge due to the language’s extinction and limited surviving texts. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that this ancient writing system can be represented, researched, and shared in modern digital environments, aiding linguists and historians in their study of Tan

General Properties

Code Point U+1717B
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 𗅻
HTML Hex Encoding 𗅻
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x97 0x85 0xBB
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD81C 0xDD7B
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001717B
C/C++/Java Escape \ud81c\udd7b

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 17.11
kTGT_MergedSrc L2008-2910