U+17E23 "𗸣" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+17E23 "𗸣" Tangut Ideograph-# is an ancient Chinese character from the Tangut script, which was used to write the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty in northwest China from the 11th to the 13th century. This particular ideograph is part of a highly complex logographic writing system comprising thousands of characters, and it represents a specific word or morpheme in Tangut, though its exact meaning and pronunciation are often known only to specialists through studies of the surviving manuscripts and dictionaries. The character is encoded in the Unicode Standard to support digital preservation and scholarly research into this historical civilization.

General Properties

Code Point	U+17E23
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	𗸣
HTML Hex Encoding	𗸣
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x97 0xB8 0xA3
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD81F 0xDE23
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00017E23
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud81f\ude23

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	228.10
kTGT_MergedSrc	L2008-0644