U+1717C "𗅼" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𗅼

U+1717C "𗅼" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific character from the Tangut script, an ancient writing system used for the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty. Its meaning and pronunciation are documented in the authoritative Tangut dictionary "The Sea of Characters," where it is defined as a verb meaning "to fear" or "to be afraid," and it is reconstructed with the reading "dźjwọ" or a similar phonetic value. This ideograph, like all Tangut characters, was inscribed as part of a vast corpus of Buddhist texts, legal documents, and official records that were rediscovered in the 20th century. Its inclusion in Unicode facilitates modern digital preservation and scholarly study of this complex logographic system, which comprises over 6,000 distinct characters.

General Properties

Code Point U+1717C
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 𗅼
HTML Hex Encoding 𗅼
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x97 0x85 0xBC
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD81C 0xDD7C
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001717C
C/C++/Java Escape \ud81c\udd7c

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 L2008-3492