U+17BE7 "𗯧" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+17BE7 "𗯧" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific character from the Tangut script, a historical writing system used for the extinct Tangut language spoken by the Tangut people of the Western Xia dynasty (1038–1227). This script, which resembles Chinese characters but functions differently, was created in the 11th century and encodes a unique logographic system. The character 𗯧 represents a single Tangut word or morpheme and is part of the Tangut Ideographs block in Unicode, which was added to support scholarly research into Tangut texts, many of which were discovered in the ruins of Khara-Khoto. Its precise meaning in the Tangut language remains a subject of ongoing philological study.

General Properties

Code Point	U+17BE7
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	𗯧
HTML Hex Encoding	𗯧
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x97 0xAF 0xA7
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD81E 0xDFE7
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00017BE7
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud81e\udfe7

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	172.10
kTGT_MergedSrc	L2008-4682