U+171C4 "𗇄" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𗇄

U+171C4 "𗇄" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific ideograph from the Tangut script, a historical writing system used for the extinct Tangut language spoken in the Western Xia dynasty (11th–13th centuries). This character belongs to the Tangut block of the Unicode Standard, which was encoded to preserve and digitally represent the thousands of logographic symbols found in Tangut texts, such as the Tangut translation of Buddhist scriptures and legal documents. The exact meaning or phonetic value of this particular ideograph is typically identified through scholarly research into the Tangut dictionary "The Pearl in the Palm" and other surviving manuscripts, but like many Tangut characters, it represents a complete concept or word in the language.

General Properties

Code Point U+171C4
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 𗇄
HTML Hex Encoding 𗇄
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x97 0x87 0x84
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD81C 0xDDC4
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000171C4
C/C++/Java Escape \ud81c\uddc4

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 19.8
kTGT_MergedSrc L2008-4559