U+17DCC "𗷌" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𗷌

U+17DCC "ð—·Œ" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific character 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 (1038–1227). This ideograph represents a single morpheme or word, with its exact meaning and pronunciation known primarily through scholarly reconstruction based on historical dictionaries and texts, as the script was deciphered in the 20th century. It is part of the Tangut Ideographs block in Unicode, which contains thousands of these intricate characters, each composed of complex strokes and often resembling Chinese characters but with distinct structural principles. The character’s inclusion in the Unicode Standard enables its digital representation and study by linguists and historians focusing on this unique and challenging aspect of Central Asian philology.

General Properties

Code Point U+17DCC
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 𗷌
HTML Hex Encoding 𗷌
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x97 0xB7 0x8C
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD81F 0xDDCC
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00017DCC
C/C++/Java Escape \ud81f\uddcc

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 L2008-4494