U+17BF8 "𗯸" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+17BF8 "𗯸" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific glyph from the Tangut script, an ancient writing system used for the extinct Tangut language spoken by the Tangut people during the Western Xia dynasty in medieval China. This particular character, like all Tangut ideographs, represents a single morpheme or word, and its precise meaning corresponds to a logographic entry in the reconstructed Tangut lexicon, though its exact semantic value is often determined by scholarly analysis of historical texts. The inclusion of this character in Unicode ensures its digital preservation and enables modern researchers to accurately encode, display, and study the rich linguistic and cultural heritage of the Tangut civilization.

General Properties

Code Point	U+17BF8
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	𗯸
HTML Hex Encoding	𗯸
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x97 0xAF 0xB8
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD81E 0xDFF8
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00017BF8
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud81e\udff8

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	L2008-5738