U+171CA "𗇊" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+171CA "𗇊" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific logogram from the ancient Tangut script, which was used to write the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty (1038–1227 CE). Assigned to the Tangut Supplement block of Unicode, this character is one of thousands of ideographs that have been deciphered from historical manuscripts, with each ideograph representing a word or syllable. The precise meaning of "𗇊" has been determined through comparative philology and is documented in the Unicode standard, though its everyday usage is limited to academic study of Tangut linguistics and digital preservation of this unique writing system.

General Properties

Code Point	U+171CA
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	𗇊
HTML Hex Encoding	𗇊
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x97 0x87 0x8A
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD81C 0xDDCA
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000171CA
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud81c\uddca

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	26.7
kTGT_MergedSrc	L2008-3836