U+17D55 "𗵕" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𗵕
U+17D55 "𗵕" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific glyph from the Tangut script, which was used to write the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty in medieval China. Representing a distinct logographic unit, its precise meaning is documented in the Tangut-Chinese bilingual glossary known as the Pearl in the Palm, where it corresponds to a particular semantic concept or word. This character is one of over six thousand ideographs encoded in the Unicode standard's Tangut block, a major addition that supports the digital preservation and study of this complex writing system, which was deciphered in the early 20th century.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+17D55 |
| 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 | 𗵕 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𗵕 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x97 0xB5 0x95 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81F 0xDD55 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00017D55 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81f\udd55 |
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 | 206.15 |
| kTGT_MergedSrc | L2008-0022 |