U+17191 "𗆑" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𗆑

U+17191 "𗆑" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific character from the Tangut script, an ancient logographic writing system used for the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty in medieval China. This ideograph represents one of thousands of Tangut characters, which were encoded in the Unicode Standard's Tangut block to support scholarly research, digital preservation, and linguistic analysis of this historically significant script. The character itself, assigned a unique code point in the Supplementary Multilingual Plane, is primarily of interest to philologists, historians, and specialists in dead or endangered scripts, as it helps to reconstruct textual records from the 11th to 16th centuries. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that this piece of cultural heritage can be accurately stored, displayed, and exchanged across modern digital platforms.

General Properties

Code Point U+17191
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 𗆑
HTML Hex Encoding 𗆑
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x97 0x86 0x91
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD81C 0xDD91
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00017191
C/C++/Java Escape \ud81c\udd91

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 L2008-2964