U+17CE8 "𗳨" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𗳨
U+17CE8 "𗳨" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific character from the Tangut script, a logographic writing system used to record the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty (1038–1227). This ideograph is part of the Tangut block in Unicode, which was added to Standard 9.0 in 2016 to support digital preservation of historical texts. The character represents a single Tangut word or morpheme, though its exact meaning and pronunciation are subjects of ongoing philological research due to the limited number of surviving manuscripts. Its inclusion in Unicode facilitates scholarly study, digital archiving, and cross-platform representation of this ancient script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+17CE8 |
| 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 | 𗳨 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𗳨 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x97 0xB3 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81F 0xDCE8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00017CE8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81f\udce8 |
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 | 193.10 |
| kTGT_MergedSrc | L2008-0562 |