U+17E16 "ð—¸–" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ð—¸–
U+17E16 "ð—¸–" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific character from the Tangut script, an ancient logographic writing system used for the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty in medieval China. This ideograph is part of the Tangut block in Unicode, which was added to digitally encode the thousands of known Tangut characters for use in modern computing and text processing. Each Tangut character, including this one, represents a distinct syllable or word, and scholars rely on comprehensive dictionaries and databases to decipher its precise meaning and pronunciation within historical texts. The inclusion of U+17E16 helps preserve and make accessible the rich literary and administrative records of the Tangut civilization.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+17E16 |
| 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 | 𗸖 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𗸖 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x97 0xB8 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81F 0xDE16 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00017E16 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81f\ude16 |
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 | 225.9 |
| kTGT_MergedSrc | L2008-0555 |