U+17218 "𗈘" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𗈘
U+17218 "𗈘" 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). This character, like all Tangut ideographs, represents a single syllable and morpheme, though its precise meaning and pronunciation are known only through fragmentary bilingual texts and reconstructed dictionaries. As part of the Unicode Tangut block, it enables digital preservation and scholarly study of this complex script, which comprises thousands of characters and was deciphered through decades of linguistic research.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+17218 |
| 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 | 𗈘 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𗈘 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x97 0x88 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81C 0xDE18 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00017218 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81c\ude18 |
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 | 28.14 |
| kTGT_MergedSrc | L2008-1202 |