U+17C55 "𗱕" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𗱕
U+17C55 "𗱕" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific glyph from the Tangut script, an ancient writing system used for the extinct Tangut language spoken during the Western Xia dynasty in medieval China. This character, part of the Tangut Ideographs block in Unicode, represents a logographic symbol whose precise meaning is documented in the historical Tangut dictionary "Sea of Writing" or related manuscripts. It is typically used in academic contexts for the study of Tangut philology, linguistics, and the digital preservation of this unique script, which was deciphered in the early 20th century through the analysis of bilingual texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+17C55 |
| 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 | 𗱕 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𗱕 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x97 0xB1 0x95 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81F 0xDC55 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00017C55 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81f\udc55 |
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 | 185.10 |
| kTGT_MergedSrc | L2008-0968 |