U+17BA5 "𗮥" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𗮥
U+17BA5 "𗮥" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific glyph from the Tangut script, an ancient writing system used for the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia Empire (1038–1227 CE). This character, which is one of thousands of ideographs in the Tangut block of the Unicode Standard, has a defined meaning and usage within the historical texts where it appears, though its exact semantic value is often identified by its numeric index in scholarly dictionaries. Like all Tangut ideographs, it represents a syllable or a morpheme in the language and is encoded to preserve the complex, logographic nature of this unique script for modern digital and academic purposes.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+17BA5 |
| 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 | 𗮥 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𗮥 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x97 0xAE 0xA5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81E 0xDFA5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00017BA5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81e\udfa5 |
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 | 167.9 |
| kTGT_MergedSrc | L2008-5358 |