U+17BC0 "𗯀" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𗯀

U+17BC0 "𗯀" Tangut Ideograph-# is a glyph from the Tangut script, an ancient writing system used for the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty (1038–1227) in northwestern China. This specific ideograph has been assigned a provisional or placeholder name "Tangut Ideograph-#" in the Unicode Standard, indicating that its exact meaning and phonetic value have not yet been fully determined or officially named. It belongs to the Tangut block of Unicode, which was added to encode thousands of Tangut characters discovered in historical manuscripts and inscriptions. As part of the ongoing effort to digitally preserve and study this unique script, U+17BC0 represents a small piece of a complex logographic system that remains a focus of scholarly research in linguistics and palaeography.

General Properties

Code Point U+17BC0
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 𗯀
HTML Hex Encoding 𗯀
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x97 0xAF 0x80
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD81E 0xDFC0
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00017BC0
C/C++/Java Escape \ud81e\udfc0

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 167.13
kTGT_MergedSrc L2008-5277