U+17BF6 "𗯶" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𗯶
U+17BF6 "𗯶" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific glyph from the Tangut script, an ancient writing system used for the Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty (11th–13th centuries). This character represents a single logographic unit from the vast Tangut repertoire, which was deciphered partially through multilingual inscriptions and dictionaries. While its exact meaning and phonetic value are not universally known without consulting the Tangut corpus, it is one of many ideographs encoded in the Unicode Standard to support digital preservation and study of this extinct language. Its inclusion in Unicode allows scholars to represent and analyze Tangut texts electronically, aiding in linguistic and historical research.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+17BF6 |
| 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 | 𗯶 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𗯶 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x97 0xAF 0xB6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81E 0xDFF6 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00017BF6 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81e\udff6 |
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 | 173.10 |
| kTGT_MergedSrc | L2008-5405 |