U+17CEC "𗳬" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𗳬
U+17CEC "𗳬" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific logogram from the Tangut script, a complex writing system used to record the extinct Tangut language spoken by the Tangut people of the Western Xia dynasty in medieval China. This character represents a single morpheme or word, and its exact meaning, like many Tangut characters, is deciphered through comparative analysis of bilingual texts and structural composition. The Tangut script comprises thousands of such intricate ideographs, each formed from a combination of strokes and components that encode both semantic and phonetic information, making characters like U+17CEC essential for reconstructing the history and language of the Tangut civilization.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+17CEC |
| 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 | 𗳬 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𗳬 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x97 0xB3 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81F 0xDCEC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00017CEC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81f\udcec |
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 | L2008-1416 |