U+17BCF "𗯏" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+17BCF "𗯏" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific glyph from the ancient Tangut writing system, which was used to record the extinct Tangut language of the Xixia Empire (1038–1227 C.E.) in northwestern China. This character is part of the Tangut Ideographs block in Unicode, codified to preserve the complex logographic script that consists of thousands of characters, each representing a syllable or word. The precise meaning of U+17BCF remains undetermined in current scholarship, as much of the Tangut lexicon is still being deciphered through the study of bilingual texts and dictionaries like the Pearl in the Palm, though it likely conveys a concrete or abstract concept native to the Tangut vocabulary.

General Properties

Code Point	U+17BCF
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	𗯏
HTML Hex Encoding	𗯏
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x97 0xAF 0x8F
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD81E 0xDFCF
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00017BCF
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud81e\udfcf

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	167.17
kTGT_MergedSrc	L2008-5270