U+17C43 "𗱃" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+17C43 "𗱃" Tangut Ideograph-# is a single logogram from the Tangut script, a complex writing system created during the Tangut Empire of the 11th century in what is now northwestern China, used to write the extinct Tangut language. This specific ideograph, whose meaning is not widely known outside specialized scholarship, represents one of over 6,000 distinct characters in the Tangut script, which was deciphered in the early 20th century through bilingual inscriptions and dictionaries like the Pearl in the Palm. As part of the Unicode Standard's Tangut block, encoding U+17C43 ensures digital preservation and accessibility for researchers studying the history, philology, and culture of the Tangut civilization.

General Properties

Code Point	U+17C43
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	𗱃
HTML Hex Encoding	𗱃
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x97 0xB1 0x83
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD81F 0xDC43
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00017C43
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud81f\udc43

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	184.11
kTGT_MergedSrc	L2008-0827