U+17BFC "𗯼" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+17BFC "𗯼" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific glyph from the Tangut script, a logographic writing system used to record the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia Empire (11th–13th centuries). This particular ideograph, identified by its unique code point in Unicode’s Tangut block, represents a semantic unit within the vast corpus of Tangut texts, many of which are Buddhist scriptures and imperial documents. While the exact meaning and phonetic value of U+17BFC are not widely known outside specialized linguistic circles, its inclusion in Unicode facilitates digital preservation, scholarly analysis, and global access to this rare historical script, helping to safeguard a fragment of Central Asian cultural heritage.

General Properties

Code Point	U+17BFC
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	𗯼
HTML Hex Encoding	𗯼
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x97 0xAF 0xBC
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD81E 0xDFFC
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00017BFC
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud81e\udffc

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	173.11
kTGT_MergedSrc	L2008-5185