U+171B8 "𗆸" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+171B8 "𗆸" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific ideographic glyph from the Tangut script, an ancient writing system used to record the now extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty in medieval China. This particular character belongs to the large set of Tangut ideographs encoded in the Supplementary Ideographic Plane of Unicode, where each character represents a unique word or morpheme. Defined within the Tangut block, its structure and phonetic properties have been reconstructed by scholars through comparative and historical linguistic analysis, though its exact meaning is often specific to the original texts. The inclusion of this character in Unicode allows for the accurate digital representation and study of Tangut manuscripts, contributing to the preservation and research of this historically significant but once lost language.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
𗆸 |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
𗆸 |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xF0 0x97 0x86 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0xD81C 0xDDB8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x000171B8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\ud81c\uddb8 |
Unicode Properties