U+171AC "𗆬" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+171AC "𗆬" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific ideograph from the Tangut script, which was historically used to write the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty (1038–1227 CE) in present-day northwestern China. This particular character is part of the Tangut Supplement block, which was added to Unicode to represent the thousands of unique, complex logograms that were created for the Tangut script, modeled after Chinese characters but distinct in form and structure. Its meaning is not universally glossed in standard databases, but like all Tangut characters, it encodes a discrete syllable or morpheme from that ancient language, which was deciphered by linguists through comparative analysis of surviving texts and dictionaries.

General Properties

Code Point	U+171AC
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	𗆬
HTML Hex Encoding	𗆬
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x97 0x86 0xAC
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD81C 0xDDAC
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000171AC
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud81c\uddac

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	17.14
kTGT_MergedSrc	L2008-1902