U+17DEC "ð—·¬" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ð—·¬
U+17DEC "ð—·¬" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific ideograph from the Tangut script, an ancient writing system used for the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty (1038–1227). This character belongs to the Tangut block of Unicode, which was encoded to preserve and digitally represent the thousands of logographic glyphs from that script, many of which have been reconstructed from texts like the Tangut translation of Buddhist scriptures. The exact meaning and phonetic reading of U+17DEC are primarily of interest to historians and linguists studying the Tangut civilization, as the script's complex structure and limited corpus make full decipherment an ongoing scholarly challenge.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+17DEC |
| 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 | 𗷬 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𗷬 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x97 0xB7 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81F 0xDDEC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00017DEC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81f\uddec |
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 | 224.7 |
| kTGT_MergedSrc | L2008-1449 |