U+171A5 "𗆥" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𗆥
U+171A5 "𗆥" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific character from the Tangut script, an extinct writing system used to record the Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty in medieval China. This character represents one of the thousands of logographic symbols that were deciphered from the Tangut script, which was primarily used for administrative, religious, and literary texts between the 11th and 16th centuries. Its inclusion in Unicode under the Tangut block allows for digital preservation and study of this historical language, though its exact meaning or phonetic value is not widely known outside specialized linguistic research.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+171A5 |
| 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 | 𗆥 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𗆥 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x97 0x86 0xA5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81C 0xDDA5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000171A5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81c\udda5 |
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 | L2008-1917 |