U+17CDF "𗳟" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𗳟

U+17CDF "𗳟" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific character from the Tangut script, which was used to write the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty in medieval China. This character belongs to the Tangut Ideographs block in the Unicode standard, encoding one of the thousands of logographic symbols that represent words or morphemes in that language. Its precise meaning remains largely unknown to modern scholars due to the limited corpus of deciphered Tangut texts, but it likely corresponds to a common noun or verb in the original vocabulary. The inclusion of U+17CDF in Unicode facilitates digital preservation and research into Tangut culture, though specialists continue to work on translating and cataloguing such characters for historical linguistics.

General Properties

Code Point U+17CDF
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 𗳟
HTML Hex Encoding 𗳟
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x97 0xB3 0x9F
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD81F 0xDCDF
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00017CDF
C/C++/Java Escape \ud81f\udcdf

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 193.8
kTGT_MergedSrc L2008-1720