U+17BAF "𗮯" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𗮯
U+17BAF "𗮯" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific graphic symbol from the Tangut script, a historical writing system used for the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty in medieval China. This character is part of a large block of Tangut ideographs encoded in Unicode to preserve and digitally represent this unique logographic script. As a Tangut ideograph, it carries a particular meaning and phonetic value within the language, though its exact semantic interpretation is often reconstructed through scholarly analysis of historical texts and dictionaries. Its inclusion in Unicode facilitates academic research, digital typography, and access to Tangut literature for linguists and historians worldwide.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+17BAF |
| 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 | 𗮯 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𗮯 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x97 0xAE 0xAF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81E 0xDFAF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00017BAF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81e\udfaf |
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 | L2008-5701 |