U+17BD8 "𗯘" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+17BD8 "𗯘" Tangut Ideograph-# is part of the Tangut script block, which encodes characters from the extinct Tangut language used by the Tangut people of the Western Xia dynasty from the 11th to 16th centuries. This specific ideograph represents a single word or morpheme in the Tangut writing system, which was designed as a complex logographic script with over 6,000 known characters, modeled loosely after Chinese but structurally distinct. The character's numeric designation, with the pound sign indicating it is an exemplar placeholder, marks it as a standardized entry in the Unicode Standard, enabling its digital representation and study by scholars of historical linguistics and paleography.

General Properties

Code Point	U+17BD8
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	𗯘
HTML Hex Encoding	𗯘
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x97 0xAF 0x98
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD81E 0xDFD8
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00017BD8
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud81e\udfd8

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	170.10
kTGT_MergedSrc	L2008-5895