U+17B8A "𗮊" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𗮊
U+17B8A "𗮊" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific glyph from the Tangut script, an ancient writing system used for the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty (1038-1227) in northwestern China. This ideograph is one of over 6,000 characters included in Unicode's Tangut block, which was encoded to help preserve and digitally represent historical texts and artifacts. The exact meaning of this character is typically identified within Tangut dictionaries and research, as each character represents a morpheme or word, though its specific semantic value is not widely known outside specialist academic circles. Its inclusion in Unicode allows for modern digital storage, scholarly research, and cross-platform display of Tangut manuscripts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+17B8A |
| 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 | 𗮊 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𗮊 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x97 0xAE 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81E 0xDF8A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00017B8A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81e\udf8a |
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 | 165.12 |
| kTGT_MergedSrc | L2008-5706 |