U+17E08 "𗸈" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+17E08 "𗸈" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific glyph from the Tangut script, a logographic writing system used during the Western Xia dynasty (1038–1227) to record the now-extinct Tangut language. This particular ideogram, like others in the Tangut block of Unicode, represents a single character from a vast inventory of over six thousand known Tangut signs, which were modeled after Chinese characters but adapted phonetically and semantically to fit the Tangut tongue. Its inclusion in the Unicode Standard under Plane 1 (SMP) allows for digital preservation and scholarly study of this historical script, though its exact meaning and pronunciation are often subject to ongoing philological research.

General Properties

Code Point	U+17E08
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	𗸈
HTML Hex Encoding	𗸈
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x97 0xB8 0x88
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD81F 0xDE08
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00017E08
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud81f\ude08

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	224.13
kTGT_MergedSrc	L2008-0406-0407