U+17208 "𗈈" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𗈈
U+17208 "𗈈" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific logogram from the Tangut script, an ancient writing system used for the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty in medieval China. This character, like all Tangut ideographs, represents a single syllable and carries a particular meaning within the script, though its exact semantic value is not always fully confirmed by modern scholarship. It belongs to the Tangut block of the Unicode Standard, which was added to support the digital encoding and study of this historically significant script, aiding researchers in deciphering Tangut texts and preserving this unique linguistic heritage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+17208 |
| 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 | 𗈈 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𗈈 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x97 0x88 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81C 0xDE08 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00017208 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81c\ude08 |
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 | 28.13 |
| kTGT_MergedSrc | L2008-1210 |