U+17BDA "𗯚" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𗯚
U+17BDA "𗯚" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific logogram from the Tangut script, an extinct writing system used during the Western Xia dynasty in medieval China to record the Tangut language. This character, like others in the Tangut block (U+17000–U+18FFF), represents a single syllable or concept and is encoded in Unicode to support scholarly research, historical linguistics, and digital preservation of ancient texts. Its precise meaning and pronunciation are subjects of ongoing study, as Tangut remains partially deciphered through comparison with Chinese glossaries and extant manuscripts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+17BDA |
| 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 | 𗯚 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𗯚 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x97 0xAF 0x9A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81E 0xDFDA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00017BDA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81e\udfda |
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 | 170.12 |
| kTGT_MergedSrc | L2008-5980 |