U+17BCA "𗯊" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𗯊
U+17BCA "𗯊" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific encoded symbol from the Tangut script, a logographic writing system used for the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty in northwestern China. This character represents a single lexical meaning within the Tangut dictionary and is part of the broader Tangut block in the Unicode Standard, which preserves over 6,000 historical ideographs for digital use. As of early 2025, its exact phonetic value and semantic definition remain subjects of ongoing philological research, though it is cataloged under the provisional identifier "#" pending full scholarly confirmation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+17BCA |
| 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 | 𗯊 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𗯊 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x97 0xAF 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81E 0xDFCA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00017BCA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81e\udfca |
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 | L2008-5110 |