U+171AB "𗆫" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+171AB "𗆫" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific character from the Tangut script, a historical writing system used for the extinct Tangut language spoken by the Tangut people during the Western Xia dynasty (1038–1227). This ideograph represents one of thousands of logographic symbols in the Tangut script, which was deciphered in the early 20th century and is now encoded in Unicode’s Tangut block to support digital preservation and academic research. "𗆫" is identified by its unique radical and stroke composition, though its precise semantic meaning often requires consultation of specialized dictionaries, as the Tangut script has no direct modern equivalent and remains a subject of ongoing linguistic study.

General Properties

Code Point	U+171AB
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	𗆫
HTML Hex Encoding	𗆫
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x97 0x86 0xAB
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD81C 0xDDAB
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000171AB
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud81c\uddab

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	L2008-1946