U+17DD8 "ð—·˜" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ð—·˜
U+17DD8 "ð—·˜" Tangut Ideograph-# is a part of the Tangut script, a complex logographic writing system used to record the extinct Tangut language spoken by the Tangut people of the Western Xia dynasty in medieval China. This character is one of thousands of Tangut ideographs encoded in the Unicode Standard to preserve and enable digital representation of the script. Its precise meaning remains uncertain to modern scholars, as the Tangut language is only partially deciphered through fragmentary texts and bilingual inscriptions. The inclusion of such characters in Unicode facilitates academic research into historical linguistics and the cultural heritage of the Tangut civilization.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+17DD8 |
| 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 | 𗷘 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𗷘 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x97 0xB7 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81F 0xDDD8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00017DD8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81f\uddd8 |
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 | 219.9 |
| kTGT_MergedSrc | L2008-0651 |