U+17C9C "𗲜" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𗲜

U+17C9C "𗲜" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific character from the Tangut script, a historical logographic writing system used to record the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty (11th–13th centuries). This character belongs to a large repertoire of Tangut ideographs encoded in the Unicode Standard within the Tangut block, which was added to support the study and digital preservation of this ancient script. While the exact meaning or phonetic value of U+17C9C is not widely documented outside specialist linguistic databases, it represents a unique morpheme or word component used in Tangut manuscripts. The inclusion of such characters in Unicode enables researchers, historians, and linguists to digitally process, search, and compare Tangut texts, facilitating ongoing efforts to decipher and understand the historical and cultural records of the Tangut civilization.

General Properties

Code Point U+17C9C
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 𗲜
HTML Hex Encoding 𗲜
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x97 0xB2 0x9C
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD81F 0xDC9C
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00017C9C
C/C++/Java Escape \ud81f\udc9c

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 185.15
kTGT_MergedSrc L2008-0950