U+17DCB "ð—·‹" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+17DCB "ð—·‹" Tangut Ideograph-# is a symbol from the Tangut script, an ancient writing system used to record the extinct Tangut language spoken by the Tangut people of the Western Xia dynasty in northwestern China from the 11th to the 14th centuries. This specific character is part of the Tangut Ideographs block in Unicode, added in version 9.0 in 2016, and represents a specific logographic meaning that scholars reconstruct based on historical texts and dictionaries. Like other Tangut characters, it consists of complex strokes and radicals, reflecting the script's structural inspiration from Chinese characters while being entirely unique to Tangut. The ideograph contributes to the digital preservation and study of a civilization that left behind valuable manuscripts, inscriptions, and legal codes, helping modern linguists and historians decode a language that was lost for centuries.

General Properties

Code Point U+17DCB
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 𗷋
HTML Hex Encoding 𗷋
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x97 0xB7 0x8B
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD81F 0xDDCB
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00017DCB
C/C++/Java Escape \ud81f\uddcb

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 H2004-A-5844