U+17CAE "ð—²®" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ð—²®
U+17CAE "ð—²®" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific glyph from the Tangut script, an ancient writing system used to record the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty (11th–13th centuries). This character represents a single ideograph whose precise meaning and pronunciation are known only through fragmentary historical dictionaries and scholarly reconstruction, as the script was deciphered in the 20th century from texts like the Tangut translation of Chinese classics. Its inclusion in Unicode allows for digital preservation and study of this esoteric logographic system, which consists of thousands of unique characters, though U+17CAE remains unidentified in standard reference works beyond its classification as a Tangut ideograph.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+17CAE |
| 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 | 𗲮 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𗲮 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x97 0xB2 0xAE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81F 0xDCAE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00017CAE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81f\udcae |
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 | L2008-1437 |