U+17C96 "ð—²–" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ð—²–
U+17C96 "ð—²–" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific glyph from the Tangut script, an ancient logographic writing system used to document the now extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty (1038–1227). This character, part of the Tangut block in Unicode, represents a unique ideographic unit whose exact meaning is often identified through historical manuscripts, though its precise semantic value may not be widely known outside specialized scholarly research. Its inclusion in Unicode helps preserve a small fragment of this historically significant writing system for digital use and linguistic study.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+17C96 |
| 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 | 𗲖 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𗲖 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x97 0xB2 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81F 0xDC96 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00017C96 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81f\udc96 |
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 | L2008-1060 |