U+17C9E "𗲞" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+17C9E "𗲞" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific glyph from the Tangut script, an ancient writing system used for the extinct Tangut language spoken by the Tangut people of the Western Xia dynasty in northwestern China from the 11th to the 16th centuries. This character represents a unique logographic symbol, though its precise meaning and pronunciation are not fully decoded, as the majority of the over 6,000 known Tangut characters remain only partially deciphered by scholars. It belongs to the Tangut block of Unicode, which was added to the standard in 2016 to facilitate the digital preservation and study of this complex historical script, which is characterized by its square, intricate strokes and high graphical density.

General Properties

Code Point	U+17C9E
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	𗲞
HTML Hex Encoding	𗲞
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x97 0xB2 0x9E
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD81F 0xDC9E
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00017C9E
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud81f\udc9e

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	L2008-1093