U+17BCB "𗯋" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𗯋
U+17BCB "𗯋" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific glyph from the Tangut script, an ancient writing system used to record the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty in medieval China. This ideograph represents a particular word or concept within the Tangut lexicon, though its exact phonetic value and meaning are subjects of ongoing scholarly research, as fewer than 6,000 of the over 6,000 known Tangut characters have been fully deciphered. Its inclusion in Unicode under the Tangut block enables digital preservation and global cross-platform access for linguists, historians, and enthusiasts studying this complex logographic system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+17BCB |
| 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 | 𗯋 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𗯋 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x97 0xAF 0x8B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81E 0xDFCB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00017BCB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81e\udfcb |
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 | L2008-5362 |