U+17CAA "𗲪" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𗲪
U+17CAA "𗲪" Tangut Ideograph-# is a single character representing a specific word or syllable from the extinct Tangut language, which was used during the Western Xia dynasty in China from 1038 to 1227. Encoded in the Tangut block of Unicode, it is one of thousands of unique logograms that formed the Tangut script, a complex writing system modeled after Chinese characters but with its own distinct structure and pronunciation. This particular ideograph, like others in its set, carries a defined lexical meaning and phonetic value that scholars have reconstructed through analysis of historical texts and dictionaries, though the exact translation for this character may remain specialized or uncertain outside academic contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+17CAA |
| 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 | 𗲪 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𗲪 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x97 0xB2 0xAA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81F 0xDCAA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00017CAA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81f\udcaa |
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 | 185.16 |
| kTGT_MergedSrc | L2008-1023 |