U+17CBD "饤步" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
饤步
U+17CBD "饤步" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific character from the Tangut script, an ancient writing system used to record the now-extinct Tangut language spoken by the Tangut people during the Western Xia dynasty (1038–1227 CE). This ideograph is part of the Tangut block in the Unicode standard, which encodes thousands of distinct characters to represent the syllabic and logographic nature of the script. Its precise meaning in the Tangut language remains a subject of scholarly study, as many Tangut characters are still being deciphered from historical manuscripts and inscriptions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+17CBD |
| 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 | 𗲽 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𗲽 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x97 0xB2 0xBD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81F 0xDCBD |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00017CBD |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81f\udcbd |
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 | 185.21 |
| kTGT_MergedSrc | L2008-1109 |