U+171A3 "𗆣" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𗆣

U+171A3 "𗆣" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific character from the Tangut script, an ancient writing system used to record the extinct Tangut language spoken by the Tangut people of the Western Xia dynasty in medieval China. This ideograph is part of the Tangut block in Unicode, which contains thousands of characters representing logographic symbols for Tangut words, many of which remain partially deciphered. The character itself appears as a square composed of complex strokes typical of Tangut script, and it is assigned a unique code point for consistent digital representation across systems. While the exact meaning of this particular ideograph may not be fully established due to ongoing scholarly research, it contributes to the preservation and study of a historically significant writing system that was only rediscovered in the 20th century.

General Properties

Code Point U+171A3
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 𗆣
HTML Hex Encoding 𗆣
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x97 0x86 0xA3
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD81C 0xDDA3
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000171A3
C/C++/Java Escape \ud81c\udda3

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 17.13
kTGT_MergedSrc L2008-2558