U+17C16 "ð—°–" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

ð—°–

U+17C16 "ð—°–" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific ideograph from the Tangut script, a historical writing system used by the Tangut people of the Western Xia dynasty (1038-1227) in present-day northwestern China. This character belongs to the Tangut Ideographs Unicode block, which encodes approximately 6,000 of the roughly 6,800 known Tangut characters, and it represents a unique logogram that functioned as a unit in the Tangut language, though its exact meaning and pronunciation are not fully documented in standard Unicode annotations. The Tangut script, modeled after Chinese characters but with a distinct structure, was deciphered in the early 20th century primarily through multilingual inscriptions and dictionaries, making characters like U+17C16 key artifacts for understanding this extinct language and its cultural legacy.

General Properties

Code Point U+17C16
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 𗰖
HTML Hex Encoding 𗰖
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x97 0xB0 0x96
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD81F 0xDC16
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00017C16
C/C++/Java Escape \ud81f\udc16

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 177.9
kTGT_MergedSrc L2008-0478