U+171E9 "𗇩" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+171E9 "𗇩" Tangut Ideograph-# is a single glyph from the historical Tangut script, a complex logographic writing system used for the extinct Tangut language spoken by the Tangut people of the Western Xia dynasty (11th–13th centuries). This specific ideograph is one of thousands encoded in the Tangut block of Unicode, representing a unique character whose exact meaning is determined by its context in surviving manuscripts, often requiring specialized linguistic and paleographic study to interpret. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures digital preservation and scholarly access to this important part of Central Asian cultural history, allowing researchers to analyze and reference Tangut texts in modern computing environments.

General Properties

Code Point	U+171E9
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	𗇩
HTML Hex Encoding	𗇩
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x97 0x87 0xA9
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD81C 0xDDE9
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000171E9
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud81c\udde9

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	28.10
kTGT_MergedSrc	L2008-1549