U+17DAF "饤动" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

饤动

U+17DAF "饤动" Tangut Ideograph-# is an ideograph from the ancient Tangut script, which was used to write the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty (1038–1227). This specific character, part of the Tangut Ideographs block in Unicode, represents a unique logographic symbol whose exact meaning or phonetic value has been reconstructed through scholarly analysis of fragmentary texts and dictionaries, such as the 12th century "Pearl in the Palm" compendium. As a representative of a complex writing system with over 6,000 known characters, it illustrates the sophisticated linguistic heritage of the Tangut civilization, though many of its properties remain partially understood due to the script's sparse attestation and the challenges of decipherment.

General Properties

Code Point U+17DAF
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 𗶯
HTML Hex Encoding 𗶯
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x97 0xB6 0xAF
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD81F 0xDDAF
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00017DAF
C/C++/Java Escape \ud81f\uddaf

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 216.17
kTGT_MergedSrc L2008-5492