U+17C54 "ð—±”" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ð—±”
U+17C54 "ð—±”" Tangut Ideograph-# is a component of the Tangut script, a historical writing system used for the extinct Tangut language spoken during the Western Xia dynasty in present-day northwestern China. This specific ideograph belongs to a large set of over 6,000 known Tangut characters, which were logographic like Chinese characters but developed independently. The precise meaning of U+17C54 has not been fully decoded by linguists, as the study of Tangut script relies on fragmentary texts such as the Tangut translation of Buddhist sutras and the only known Tangut dictionary, the "Pearl in the Palm." Its inclusion in Unicode allows for digital preservation and scholarly research of this ancient civilization's written heritage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+17C54 |
| 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 | 𗱔 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𗱔 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x97 0xB1 0x94 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81F 0xDC54 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00017C54 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81f\udc54 |
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 | L2008-1502 |