U+17D8C "𗶌" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𗶌
U+17D8C "𗶌" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific glyph from the Tangut script, a historical writing system used for the extinct Tangut language spoken by the Tangut people of the Western Xia Empire (11th 14th centuries). This character, like others in the Tangut block, represents a logographic symbol that corresponds to a unique word or morpheme, though its exact meaning or pronunciation is typically determined by scholars through comparative analysis of recovered manuscripts and dictionaries. The Tangut script is known for its large inventory of over 6,000 characters, and U+17D8C is just one of many ideographs encoded in the Unicode Standard to preserve and facilitate digital study of this ancient language and culture.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+17D8C |
| 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 | 𗶌 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𗶌 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x97 0xB6 0x8C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81F 0xDD8C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00017D8C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81f\udd8c |
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 | 210.12 |
| kTGT_MergedSrc | L2006-6014 |