U+17D4E "𗵎" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𗵎
U+17D4E "𗵎" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific glyph from the Tangut script, a logographic writing system historically used for the extinct Tangut language spoken during the Western Xia dynasty in northwestern China (11th–14th centuries). This character represents a particular morpheme or word in Tangut, though its precise meaning and phonetic value are often known only through painstaking research by scholars reconstructing the language from bilingual inscriptions and dictionaries. As part of the Tangut subset within Unicode, it helps preserve and digitize this ancient script, facilitating academic study and digital representation of a unique civilization's written heritage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+17D4E |
| 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 | 𗵎 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𗵎 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x97 0xB5 0x8E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81F 0xDD4E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00017D4E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81f\udd4e |
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 | 206.14 |
| kTGT_MergedSrc | L2008-0128 |