U+171C9 "𗇉" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𗇉
U+171C9 "𗇉" Tangut Ideograph-# is a component of the Tangut script, which was used to write the extinct Tangut language spoken during the Western Xia dynasty in medieval China from the 11th to 16th centuries. This specific ideograph, cataloged under the Tangut block in the Unicode Standard, represents a unique logographic symbol whose precise meaning and phonetic value are documented in scholarly reconstructions of Tangut's vast hieroglyphic writing system, which comprised over 6,000 characters. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures digital preservation and study of this historical script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+171C9 |
| 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 | 𗇉 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𗇉 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x97 0x87 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81C 0xDDC9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000171C9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81c\uddc9 |
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 | 22.13 |
| kTGT_MergedSrc | L2008-2431 |