U+17D78 "𗵸" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𗵸

U+17D78 "𗵸" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific glyph from the Tangut script, a historically significant writing system used during the Tangut Empire that flourished in what is now northwestern China from the 11th to 13th centuries. This character, like all Tangut ideographs, represents a single morpheme or word and was designed to transcribe the now extinct Tangut language, which belongs to the Gyal Rong branch of the Sino Tibetan family. The exact meaning and pronunciation of U+17D78 remain a subject of scholarly research, as many Tangut characters have been deciphered through the study of bilingual Chinese Tangut manuscripts and dictionaries, such as the Pearl in the Palm. Its inclusion in the Unified Han to Tangut block of the Unicode standard helps preserve and digitally represent this ancient script for linguistic study and cultural heritage.

General Properties

Code Point U+17D78
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 𗵸
HTML Hex Encoding 𗵸
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x97 0xB5 0xB8
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD81F 0xDD78
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00017D78
C/C++/Java Escape \ud81f\udd78

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 207.16
kTGT_MergedSrc L2008-0817