U+17CB8 "𗲸" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+17CB8 "𗲸" Tangut Ideograph-# is a glyph from the Tangut script, an ancient writing system used between the 11th and 16th centuries to record the now extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty. This character represents a specific logogram, or word, originally carved into documents, manuscripts, and stelae, though its precise meaning and phonetic value are often subjects of ongoing scholarly research due to the script's complexity and the limited corpus of deciphered texts. As part of the Tangut Ideographs block in Unicode, its inclusion aids in digital preservation and study of this unique historical writing system, allowing modern researchers to analyze and reconstruct the language's vocabulary and syntax.

General Properties

Code Point	U+17CB8
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	𗲸
HTML Hex Encoding	𗲸
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x97 0xB2 0xB8
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD81F 0xDCB8
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00017CB8
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud81f\udcb8

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	185.18
kTGT_MergedSrc	L2008-0952