U+17D8E "𗶎" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𗶎
U+17D8E "𗶎" Tangut Ideograph-# is a logogram from the Tangut script, an extinct writing system used to record the Tangut language during the Western Xia dynasty (1038–1227) in present-day northwestern China. It belongs to the Tangut Ideographs block in Unicode, which encompasses over 6,000 ideographs that were deciphered from historical manuscripts, primarily the Tangut translation of Buddhist sutras. The precise meaning and phonetic value of this specific character are often documented in scholarly databases, though its exact definition remains tied to the complex reconstruction of the Tangut lexicon, making it a subject of ongoing research in historical linguistics and paleography.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+17D8E |
| 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 | 𗶎 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𗶎 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x97 0xB6 0x8E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81F 0xDD8E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00017D8E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81f\udd8e |
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 | 210.13 |
| kTGT_MergedSrc | L2008-0574 |