U+171D9 "𗇙" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𗇙
U+171D9 "𗇙" Tangut Ideograph-# is a single character from the Tangut script, an ancient writing system used for the now extinct Tangut language spoken during the Western Xia dynasty in northwestern China. The specific meaning and pronunciation of this unique ideograph are not widely documented, as the Tangut script contains thousands of complex logograms that scholars have only partially deciphered. This character lies within the Unicode Tangut block, which was added to the standard to preserve and enable digital representation of this historically significant script. Its inclusion aids researchers in philology and digital humanities, allowing for more accurate encoding of Tangut texts in modern computing environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+171D9 |
| 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 | 𗇙 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𗇙 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x97 0x87 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81C 0xDDD9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000171D9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81c\uddd9 |
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 | 26.15 |
| kTGT_MergedSrc | L2008-3833 |