U+17CD5 "𗳕" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𗳕
U+17CD5 "𗳕" Tangut Ideograph-# is a component of the Tangut script, a historical logographic writing system used to record the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty in medieval China. This specific ideograph represents a single Tangut syllable or morpheme, though its exact phonetic value and meaning have not been formally defined or annotated in available Unicode documentation, as it falls within a large set of over 6,000 encoded Tangut characters. Its inclusion in Unicode facilitates the digital preservation and scholarly study of Tangut texts, which are critical for understanding the culture, law, and Buddhism of the Western Xia Empire.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+17CD5 |
| 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 | 𗳕 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𗳕 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x97 0xB3 0x95 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81F 0xDCD5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00017CD5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81f\udcd5 |
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 | 192.11 |
| kTGT_MergedSrc | L2008-5967 |