U+17181 "𗆁" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+17181 "𗆁" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific character from the Tangut script, a logographic writing system used to record the extinct Tangut language spoken during the Western Xia dynasty (1038–1227) in what is now northwestern China. This ideograph is part of a large corpus of over 6,000 known Tangut characters, which were deciphered in the 20th century primarily through bilingual inscriptions and dictionaries. The exact meaning of U+17181, like many Tangut ideographs, may still be a subject of scholarly research, but its inclusion in Unicode allows for digital preservation and study of this historically significant and complex script.

General Properties

Code Point	U+17181
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	𗆁
HTML Hex Encoding	𗆁
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x97 0x86 0x81
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD81C 0xDD81
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00017181
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud81c\udd81

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	L2008-2355