U+17C53 "𗱓" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𗱓

U+17C53 "𗱓" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific character from the Tangut script, a historic logographic writing system used primarily for recording the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia Empire in northwest China between the 11th and 16th centuries. This character belongs to the Tangut Ideographs block in Unicode, which was encoded to preserve and facilitate digital research into the script's thousands of unique glyphs. The exact meaning or phonetic value of U+17C53 has not been widely documented in standard references, as many Tangut characters remain only partially deciphered by modern scholars. Its inclusion in Unicode enables linguists, historians, and digital humanities projects to encode, display, and analyze this rare script alongside other global writing systems in modern computing environments.

General Properties

Code Point U+17C53
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 𗱓
HTML Hex Encoding 𗱓
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x97 0xB1 0x93
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD81F 0xDC53
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00017C53
C/C++/Java Escape \ud81f\udc53

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 185.9
kTGT_MergedSrc L2008-1270