U+17BA8 "𗮨" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𗮨
U+17BA8 "𗮨" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific logogram from the Tangut script, which was used to write the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty in ancient China. This character belongs to the Tangut Ideographs block of Unicode, which contains thousands of such symbols, each representing a word or morpheme. While its exact meaning or phonetic value may not be widely known outside of specialist scholarly research, its inclusion in the Unicode Standard ensures that digital texts and datasets can accurately represent this historical writing system for linguistic and archaeological study.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+17BA8 |
| 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 | 𗮨 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𗮨 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x97 0xAE 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81E 0xDFA8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00017BA8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81e\udfa8 |
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 | 167.10 |
| kTGT_MergedSrc | L2008-5101 |