U+17D9C "𗶜" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𗶜
U+17D9C "𗶜" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific grapheme from the Tangut script, an ancient logographic writing system used to record the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty (1038–1227 CE). This character represents a conceptual or phonetic unit within that complex script, which consists of over 6,000 known ideographs. Encoded in the Unicode Standard's Tangut block, it serves as a digital representation for scholarly research, allowing linguists and historians to study, analyze, and preserve texts from a once powerful but now largely lost civilization.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+17D9C |
| 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 | 𗶜 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𗶜 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x97 0xB6 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81F 0xDD9C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00017D9C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81f\udd9c |
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 | 216.9 |
| kTGT_MergedSrc | L2008-0905 |