U+17CAF "𗲯" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𗲯
U+17CAF "𗲯" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific character from the Tangut script, a logographic writing system used to write the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty (1038–1227) in what is now northwestern China. This character, formally categorized as a Tangut ideograph with an internal identifier rather than a known semantic meaning, belongs to the Tangut block in Unicode, which was added to support historical and linguistic research. Its encoded representation allows scholars and digital platforms to preserve and analyze the over 6,000 known Tangut characters, though the exact translation or usage of this particular glyph remains uncertain due to the limited decipherment of the script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+17CAF |
| 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 | 𗲯 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𗲯 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x97 0xB2 0xAF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81F 0xDCAF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00017CAF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81f\udcaf |
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 | L2008-1344 |