U+17CA6 "𗲦" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𗲦
U+17CA6 "𗲦" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific glyph from the Tangut script, an ancient logographic writing system used to document the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty (11th–13th centuries). This character resides in the Tangut Ideographs Unicode block, which contains thousands of these complex symbols, each representing a word or morpheme. While the exact meaning of U+17CA6 is not widely known outside specialized linguistic and historical research, it is part of a critically important corpus for scholars studying Tangut Buddhist texts, legal documents, and cultural records, and its inclusion in Unicode helps preserve and digitize this unique historical script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+17CA6 |
| 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 | 𗲦 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𗲦 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x97 0xB2 0xA6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81F 0xDCA6 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00017CA6 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81f\udca6 |
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 | L2008-1331 |