U+17CA3 "𗲣" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𗲣
U+17CA3 "𗲣" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific glyph from the ancient Tangut script, which was used to write the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty (1038–1227). This character, like all Tangut ideographs, represents a single morpheme or word, and its meaning is typically deciphered through comparative historical linguistics and the study of surviving Tangut texts, such as Buddhist sutras and legal documents. The Tangut script, characterized by its complex and highly intricate strokes, includes thousands of characters, and U+17CA3 is one of the many encoded in the Unicode Standard to preserve and facilitate digital access to this unique writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+17CA3 |
| 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 | 𗲣 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𗲣 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x97 0xB2 0xA3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81F 0xDCA3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00017CA3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81f\udca3 |
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 | L2008-1076 |