U+17C82 "𗲂" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+17C82 "𗲂" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific glyph from the Tangut script, an ancient writing system used to record the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty (1038–1227). This character is part of the Tangut Ideographs block in Unicode, which encodes thousands of logographic symbols that were deciphered largely from the 20th century onward using multilingual text sources like the Pearl in the Palm. The designation "#" in its name indicates that its exact semantic or phonetic value may still be under scholarly investigation, as the Tangut script contains many rare or unconfirmed readings. Thus, 𗲂 represents a piece of a complex historical puzzle, preserving a fragment of a lost civilization's written heritage.

General Properties

Code Point	U+17C82
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	𗲂
HTML Hex Encoding	𗲂
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x97 0xB2 0x82
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD81F 0xDC82
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00017C82
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud81f\udc82

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	185.13
kTGT_MergedSrc	L2008-1228