U+17E28 "𗸨" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𗸨
U+17E28 "𗸨" Tangut Ideograph-# is part of the Tangut script block, which was used to write the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty (1038–1227) in present-day northwestern China. This particular ideograph is one of over 6,000 known Tangut characters, each representing a single syllable with its own meaning, and it is encoded in the Unicode Standard’s Supplementary Ideographic Plane to support digital preservation and study of this complex logographic writing system. The character’s exact meaning and phonetic value are still being researched by scholars, as many Tangut texts remain partially deciphered.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+17E28 |
| 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 | 𗸨 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𗸨 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x97 0xB8 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81F 0xDE28 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00017E28 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81f\ude28 |
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 | 229.10 |
| kTGT_MergedSrc | L2008-1423 |