U+17BE9 "𗯩" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+17BE9 "𗯩" Tangut Ideograph-# is an obscure and archaic logogram from the Tangut script, a writing system historically used for the extinct Tangut language spoken during the Western Xia dynasty in medieval China. This specific character, like all Tangut ideographs, represents a single morpheme or word and has been assigned a provisional name reflecting its position within the Unicode standard's Tangut block, though its exact phonetic value and meaning have not been fully deciphered by linguists. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures digital preservation for scholarly research, particularly in the fields of historical linguistics and Sinology, where it aids in the study of this complex and largely undeciphered script.

General Properties

Code Point	U+17BE9
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	𗯩
HTML Hex Encoding	𗯩
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x97 0xAF 0xA9
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD81E 0xDFE9
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00017BE9
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud81e\udfe9

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	173.7
kTGT_MergedSrc	L2008-5165