U+17CDA "𗳚" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+17CDA "𗳚" Tangut Ideograph-# is a single logographic glyph from the Tangut script, an extinct writing system used during the Tangut Empire (11th–14th centuries) in what is now northwestern China. This specific ideograph, whose exact meaning and pronunciation are largely unknown due to the incomplete decipherment of the Tangut language, represents one of thousands of complex characters that were used to write Tangut texts, many of which document Buddhist scriptures, administrative records, and legal codes. As part of the Tangut block in Unicode, U+17CDA helps preserve this historical script for digital use, enabling scholars and linguists to study and archive the remnants of a once-flourishing civilization’s written language.

General Properties

Code Point	U+17CDA
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	𗳚
HTML Hex Encoding	𗳚
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x97 0xB3 0x9A
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD81F 0xDCDA
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00017CDA
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud81f\udcda

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	193.7
kTGT_MergedSrc	L2008-0822