U+17C4D "𗱍" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+17C4D "𗱍" Tangut Ideograph-# is a single logogram from the ancient Tangut script, which was used to write the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty in present-day northwestern China from the 11th to the 16th centuries. This specific character, like all Tangut ideographs, represents a discrete syllable or morpheme with its own meaning and pronunciation, though its exact semantic value is not widely known outside specialized scholarly contexts. The Tangut script is one of the most complex writing systems ever devised, comprising thousands of characters, and U+17C4D was encoded in Unicode as part of the Tangut block to facilitate digital preservation and research into the historical language and its literature.

General Properties

Code Point	U+17C4D
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	𗱍
HTML Hex Encoding	𗱍
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x97 0xB1 0x8D
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD81F 0xDC4D
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00017C4D
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud81f\udc4d

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	184.15
kTGT_MergedSrc	L2008-0419