U+17C50 "𗱐" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𗱐
U+17C50 "𗱐" Tangut Ideograph-# is a part of the Tangut script block, which encodes the historical writing system of the Tangut Empire from the 11th to 16th centuries in northwest China. This specific ideograph represents one of the thousands of distinct characters from that extinct language, which was used primarily for official and Buddhist texts. The Tangut script is known for its complex composition, with characters often formed from multiple smaller components arranged in a consistent structural pattern, though the exact phonetic meaning and reading of this particular character remain largely unconfirmed outside specialized philological research.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+17C50 |
| 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 | 𗱐 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𗱐 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x97 0xB1 0x90 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81F 0xDC50 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00017C50 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81f\udc50 |
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 | 185.8 |
| kTGT_MergedSrc | L2008-0913 |