U+17BE2 "𗯢" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𗯢
U+17BE2 "𗯢" Tangut Ideograph-# is a single character from the Tangut script, an ancient writing system used for the extinct Tangut language spoken in the Western Xia Empire (11th–13th centuries). This particular ideograph, like all Tangut characters, is composed of intricate strokes that represent a specific logographic meaning, though its exact semantic referent is often determined by historical dictionary entries rather than modern usage. It belongs to the Tangut Supplement block within Unicode, added to support scholarly and digital preservation of this complex script, which includes thousands of unique characters.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+17BE2 |
| 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 | 𗯢 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𗯢 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x97 0xAF 0xA2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81E 0xDFE2 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00017BE2 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81e\udfe2 |
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 | 171.10 |
| kTGT_MergedSrc | L2008-5746 |