U+17188 "𗆈" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𗆈
U+17188 "𗆈" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific glyph from the Tangut script, a logographic writing system used to record the extinct Tangut language spoken in the Western Xia Empire (11th–13th centuries). This character is part of the Tangut Ideographs block in Unicode, which includes thousands of complex, square-shaped symbols designed for writing the various words of that Sino-Tibetan language. The exact meaning and reading of "𗆈" have been identified through scholarly reconstruction of Tangut texts, though it represents just one of many ideographs that are now preserved in digital form for research, linguistic study, and historical typography.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+17188 |
| 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 | 𗆈 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𗆈 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x97 0x86 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81C 0xDD88 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00017188 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81c\udd88 |
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 | 17.12 |
| kTGT_MergedSrc | L2008-2357 |