U+17200 "𗈀" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+17200 "𗈀" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific glyph from the Tangut script, a logographic writing system used to record the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty (1038–1227) in what is now northwestern China. This character represents one of over six thousand known Tangut ideographs, which were deciphered primarily from multilingual inscriptions and texts, such as the "Pearl in the Palm" dictionary. The Tangut script was designed by a scholar named Yeli Renrong under imperial order and features a highly complex structure, with each character composed of varying strokes and components that convey unique meanings. U+17200 itself is part of the Tangut block in the Unicode Standard, which was included to support scholarly research and digital preservation of this historically significant but now dead language. Its precise semantic value is often determined through comparative analysis with Chinese glosses in bilingual texts, though many Tangut characters remain only partially u
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
𗈀 |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
𗈀 |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xF0 0x97 0x88 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0xD81C 0xDE00 |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x00017200 |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\ud81c\ude00 |
Unicode Properties