U+17DCA "ð—·Š" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ð—·Š
U+17DCA "ð—·Š" Tangut Ideograph-# is a logographic symbol from the Tangut script, an extinct writing system used for the Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty (1038–1227). This character, part of the Tangut Ideographs block in Unicode, represents a specific lexical entry in the vast Tangut dictionary, which contains thousands of characters designed to record the complex Sino-Tibetan language. Its exact meaning and pronunciation are typically studied through historical linguistic research and surviving manuscripts, as the script was deciphered in the 20th century. The inclusion of such characters in Unicode helps preserve and digitally represent this ancient writing system for scholarly and cultural purposes.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+17DCA |
| 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 | 𗷊 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𗷊 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x97 0xB7 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81F 0xDDCA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00017DCA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81f\uddca |
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 | 217.16 |
| kTGT_MergedSrc | L2008-6054 |