U+171FC "𗇼" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𗇼
U+171FC "𗇼" Tangut Ideograph-# is a single character from the Tangut script, an ancient writing system used between the 11th and 16th centuries to record the now extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty in northwestern China. This specific ideograph represents one of over 6,000 known Tangut characters, which were largely deciphered in the 20th century thanks to multilingual inscriptions and dictionaries. While the exact meaning and phonetic value of U+171FC depend on its context in surviving manuscripts, its inclusion in Unicode helps preserve and digitally represent this unique historical script for study and cultural heritage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+171FC |
| 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 | 𗇼 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𗇼 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x97 0x87 0xBC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81C 0xDDFC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000171FC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81c\uddfc |
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 | 28.11 |
| kTGT_MergedSrc | L2008-1189 |