U+17E09 "𗸉" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𗸉

U+17E09 "𗸉" Tangut Ideograph-# is a logogram from the Tangut script, a complex writing system used to record the extinct Tangut language of the Xixia Empire (11th–13th centuries). This character belongs to the Tangut Ideographs block of Unicode, which encodes thousands of distinct characters deciphered from surviving manuscripts and inscriptions. Like all Tangut ideographs, it represents a single syllable or morpheme, with its specific meaning determined by scholarly reconstruction of Tangut texts. The character is identified by its unique glyph structure, which combines radical and phonetic components typical of Tangut script, though the exact semantic value of this particular ideograph remains a subject of ongoing philological research.

General Properties

Code Point U+17E09
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 𗸉
HTML Hex Encoding 𗸉
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x97 0xB8 0x89
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD81F 0xDE09
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00017E09
C/C++/Java Escape \ud81f\ude09

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 L2008-1807