U+17D28 "ð—´¨" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

ð—´¨

U+17D28 "ð—´¨" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific encoded symbol from the Tangut script, an ancient writing system used for the extinct Tangut language that flourished during the Western Xia dynasty in northwestern China between the 11th and 16th centuries. This particular ideograph is part of a vast corpus of over 6,000 Tangut characters, which were designed in a complex logographic style inspired by Chinese characters but with unique structural principles. The Tangut script was deciphered in the 20th century through the study of bilingual inscriptions and lexicographic works, such as the "Pearl in the Palm" dictionary, allowing scholars to assign phonetic and semantic values to characters like U+17D28, though the exact meaning of this specific ideograph requires consultation of specialist databases or archaeological texts that catalog Tangut glyphs. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures digital preservation and accessibility for research into this historically significant but rarely seen writi

General Properties

Code Point U+17D28
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 𗴨
HTML Hex Encoding 𗴨
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x97 0xB4 0xA8
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD81F 0xDD28
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00017D28
C/C++/Java Escape \ud81f\udd28

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 204.9
kTGT_MergedSrc L2008-1493