U+17C76 "𗱶" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+17C76 "𗱶" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific glyph from the Tangut script, a historically significant writing system used to record the extinct Tangut language during the Western Xia dynasty (1038–1227 CE) in present-day northwestern China. This character is part of a vast set of Tangut ideograms, numbering over 6,000 distinct signs, which were primarily used in official documents, Buddhist translations, and legal texts before the script fell into obscurity after the Mongol conquest. While the precise phonetic value and meaning of this particular character may be reconstructed only through scholarly comparison with surviving glossaries or historical dictionaries, it represents a crucial piece of the Tangut people’s cultural legacy, which was rediscovered and decoded by linguists in the 20th century through the study of artifacts like the Tangut–Chinese bilingual dictionary known as the “Pearl in the Palm.” The inclusion of this character in Unicode ensures digital preservation and broa
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
𗱶 |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
𗱶 |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xF0 0x97 0xB1 0xB6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0xD81F 0xDC76 |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x00017C76 |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\ud81f\udc76 |
Unicode Properties