U+17CA5 "ð—²¥" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ð—²¥
U+17CA5 "ð—²¥" Tangut Ideograph-# is a single character representing a logogram from the historical Tangut script, used during the Western Xia dynasty (1038–1227) to write the extinct Tangut language. This specific ideograph, whose exact meaning and pronunciation are often subjects of scholarly research, belongs to a large set of over 6,000 Tangut characters encoded in the Unicode Standard under the Tangut block. Its inclusion in Unicode enables digital preservation, scholarly analysis, and modern typographic representation of this unique writing system, which was largely deciphered from manuscripts and inscriptions found in the 20th century.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+17CA5 |
| 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 | 𗲥 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𗲥 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x97 0xB2 0xA5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81F 0xDCA5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00017CA5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81f\udca5 |
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 | L2008-1287 |