U+17B8C "𗮌" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𗮌
U+17B8C "𗮌" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific glyph from the Tangut script, an ancient writing system used to record the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty in northwest China between the 11th and 16th centuries. This ideograph belongs to a large block of over 6,000 Tangut characters encoded in Unicode, which were deciphered from historical texts and manuscripts. Its precise meaning remains uncertain to general audiences, but it forms part of a complex logographic script where each character represents a syllable or word, and it is identified in scholarly databases as a provisional glyph awaiting further linguistic study or contextual documentation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+17B8C |
| 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 | 𗮌 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𗮌 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x97 0xAE 0x8C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81E 0xDF8C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00017B8C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81e\udf8c |
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 | L2008-5075 |