U+17BC9 "𗯉" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𗯉
U+17BC9 "𗯉" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific symbol from the Tangut script, a historical writing system used for the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty (1038–1227). This ideograph represents a particular lexical meaning within the Tangut script, which was based on Chinese characters but features a distinct logographic system with thousands of unique glyphs. Encoded in the Unicode Standard's Tangut block, this character helps preserve and digitally represent the complex written heritage of the Tangut civilization, facilitating scholarly research and digital analysis of their literature and historical records.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+17BC9 |
| 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 | 𗯉 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𗯉 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x97 0xAF 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81E 0xDFC9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00017BC9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81e\udfc9 |
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 | 167.15 |
| kTGT_MergedSrc | L2008-5279 |