U+17C87 "𗲇" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𗲇
U+17C87 "𗲇" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific ideograph from the historical Tangut script, which was used to write the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty in northwest China. This character is part of a large and complex writing system containing over 6,000 known logograms, many of which were deciphered from excavated manuscripts and inscriptions. The exact meaning and phonetic value of U+17C87 are not fully established in modern scholarship, but it is classified under the Tangut Supplement block as a standard ideograph awaiting comprehensive linguistic analysis. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that researchers and digital archives can represent this rare script accurately for ongoing historical and philological study.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+17C87 |
| 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 | 𗲇 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𗲇 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x97 0xB2 0x87 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81F 0xDC87 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00017C87 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81f\udc87 |
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 | L2008-0923 |