U+17E1C "𗸜" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+17E1C "𗸜" Tangut Ideograph-# is a glyph from the Tangut script, a historical logographic writing system used to record the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty (1038–1227 CE). This specific ideograph belongs to the Tangut block of Unicode, which encodes thousands of characters deciphered from surviving texts and manuscripts. As with most Tangut characters, its precise meaning and pronunciation are known from scholarly reconstructions, though it is often cataloged with a generic placeholder identifier due to the script's complexity. Its inclusion in the Unicode standard represents a significant effort to digitally preserve the cultural heritage of the Tangut civilization for academic study and historical documentation.

General Properties

Code Point	U+17E1C
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	𗸜
HTML Hex Encoding	𗸜
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x97 0xB8 0x9C
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD81F 0xDE1C
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00017E1C
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud81f\ude1c

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	225.13
kTGT_MergedSrc	L2008-1705