U+17193 "𗆓" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𗆓
U+17193 "𗆓" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific glyph from the Tangut script, a logographic writing system used to record the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty (11th–13th centuries). This character is part of the Tangut Ideographs block in Unicode, which encodes thousands of these complex, siniform characters that were deciphered primarily through the study of the bilingual Tangut–Chinese "Pearl in the Palm" glossary. While the exact meaning and phonetic value of this particular ideograph are not widely known outside specialized scholarly research, its inclusion in the Unicode standard ensures that digital preservation and study of the Tangut script remain possible for linguists and historians.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+17193 |
| 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 | 𗆓 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𗆓 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x97 0x86 0x93 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81C 0xDD93 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00017193 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81c\udd93 |
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 | L2008-1908 |