U+171B9 "𗆹" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𗆹
U+171B9 "𗆹" Tangut Ideograph-# is a component of the Tangut script, an ancient logographic writing system used for the extinct Tangut language spoken by the Tangut people of the Western Xia dynasty (1038–1227). This specific character represents a single Tangut ideogram, each of which corresponds to a syllable or a word, and it is encoded in the Unicode Tangut block as part of a comprehensive effort to digitally preserve and study the thousands of known Tangut glyphs. The exact meaning and pronunciation of the particular character are defined by scholarly research into Tangut texts, which were deciphered in the 20th century with the help of bilingual inscriptions and dictionaries.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+171B9 |
| 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 | 𗆹 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𗆹 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x97 0x86 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81C 0xDDB9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000171B9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81c\uddb9 |
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 | 17.15 |
| kTGT_MergedSrc | L2008-3500 |