U+17C01 "𗰁" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+17C01 "𗰁" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific glyph from the Tangut script, an ancient writing system used primarily between the 11th and 16th centuries in the Western Xia dynasty in northwestern China. This character belongs to a vast set of logographic symbols that were used to write the Tangut language, which is now extinct but remains partially deciphered through surviving manuscripts and inscriptions. The character itself represents a single lexical unit, though its precise meaning is often still being studied by scholars and may correspond to a concept or object in the Tangut lexicon. It is encoded in Unicode’s Tangut block, which was added to support digital representation and research of this historically significant script.

General Properties

Code Point	U+17C01
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	𗰁
HTML Hex Encoding	𗰁
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x97 0xB0 0x81
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD81F 0xDC01
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00017C01
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud81f\udc01

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	173.12
kTGT_MergedSrc	L2008-5176