U+17BDD "𗯝" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𗯝
U+17BDD "𗯝" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific glyph from the Tangut script, an ancient writing system used for the extinct Tangut language spoken in the Western Xia dynasty (11th–13th centuries). This character represents one of over 6,000 known Tangut ideographs, which were largely deciphered from excavated manuscripts and stone inscriptions. While its precise semantic meaning and phonetic value are not fully confirmed in modern scholarship, it is cataloged in the Unicode Standard to support digital preservation and research of this historical script. The character resides in the Tangut block, added in Unicode version 9.0, and its inclusion helps linguists and historians study the unique logographic system of the Tangut civilization.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+17BDD |
| 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 | 𗯝 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𗯝 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x97 0xAF 0x9D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81E 0xDFDD |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00017BDD |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81e\udfdd |
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 | 170.16 |
| kTGT_MergedSrc | L2008-5842 |