U+17C8B "𗲋" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𗲋
U+17C8B "𗲋" Tangut Ideograph-# is a single character from the Tangut script, an ancient logographic writing system used to record the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty in medieval China. This specific ideograph belongs to the Tangut block of Unicode, which encodes thousands of such characters reconstructed from historical manuscripts and inscriptions. Its precise meaning is not widely known outside of specialized Sinological and Tangutological research, as many Tangut characters remain undeciphered or poorly documented. The character is part of a larger effort to digitize and preserve the Tangut script, allowing scholars and enthusiasts to study this unique writing system on modern computers.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+17C8B |
| 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 | 𗲋 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𗲋 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x97 0xB2 0x8B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81F 0xDC8B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00017C8B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81f\udc8b |
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 | L2008-1529 |