U+171E3 "𗇣" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𗇣
U+171E3 "𗇣" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific glyph from the Tangut script, a complex logographic writing system used to record the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty (11th to 14th centuries). This character belongs to the Tangut Ideographs block in Unicode, which encodes thousands of unique ideographs derived from historical sources like the Tangut dictionary "Pearls of the Precious Sea." Its exact meaning remains under scholarly investigation, as Tangut script studies are ongoing, but it represents a single morpheme in the language, distinguished by its intricate strokes and structural composition typical of Tangut writing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+171E3 |
| 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 | 𗇣 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𗇣 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x97 0x87 0xA3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81C 0xDDE3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000171E3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81c\udde3 |
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 | 28.9 |
| kTGT_MergedSrc | L2008-1524 |