U+17E21 "𗸡" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𗸡
U+17E21 "𗸡" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific glyph from the Tangut script, an ancient logographic writing system used to record the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty. This character is part of the Tangut Ideographs block in Unicode, which was encoded to preserve and digitize historical texts for scholarly research and linguistic studies. Its exact meaning remains unknown to most modern readers, as Tangut characters are primarily deciphered through comparative analysis of multilingual inscriptions and dictionaries, often representing words or morphemes with complex phonetic and semantic values.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+17E21 |
| 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 | 𗸡 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𗸡 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x97 0xB8 0xA1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81F 0xDE21 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00017E21 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81f\ude21 |
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 | 228.7 |
| kTGT_MergedSrc | L2008-0482 |