U+17BAA "𗮪" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𗮪

U+17BAA "𗮪" 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 medieval China. This character belongs to the Tangut block of Unicode, a collection of thousands of ideographs that were deciphered from ancient texts and manuscripts. As a component of this complex writing system, U+17BAA represents a particular word or morpheme, with its meaning and pronunciation studied by scholars through comparative analysis of Tangut Buddhist scriptures and administrative documents. Its inclusion in the Unicode Standard ensures that digital text can accurately preserve and represent this historically significant script for research, digital archives, and linguistic study.

General Properties

Code Point U+17BAA
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 𗮪
HTML Hex Encoding 𗮪
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x97 0xAE 0xAA
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD81E 0xDFAA
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00017BAA
C/C++/Java Escape \ud81e\udfaa

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 L2008-5360