U+17C95 "𗲕" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𗲕

U+17C95 "𗲕" Tangut Ideograph-# is a single character from the Tangut script, a complex and largely undeciphered writing system used between the 11th and 16th centuries for the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty in northwestern China. This specific ideograph is one of thousands of characters in the Tangut block of Unicode, representing a logographic symbol that encodes a morpheme or word, though its precise meaning and phonetic value remain unknown to modern scholars. The character is formed with intricate strokes typical of Tangut calligraphy, combining horizontal, vertical, and diagonal lines into a dense, squarish structure that distinguishes it from other scripts like Chinese or Japanese kanji. Its inclusion in the Unicode Standard ensures digital preservation and facilitates research into this historical language, even as most Tangut ideographs continue to puzzle linguists and historians.

General Properties

Code Point U+17C95
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 𗲕
HTML Hex Encoding 𗲕
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x97 0xB2 0x95
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD81F 0xDC95
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00017C95
C/C++/Java Escape \ud81f\udc95

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 185.14
kTGT_MergedSrc L2008-1496