U+17E2B "𗸫" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𗸫
U+17E2B "𗸫" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific character from the Tangut script, an ancient writing system used to record the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty (11th-13th centuries). This ideograph represents a single Tangut word or morpheme, though its exact semantic value is often unknown or reconstructed by philologists. Encoding such characters in Unicode allows for digital preservation and study of this historical script, which contains thousands of complex logographic symbols distinct from Chinese characters.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+17E2B |
| 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 | 𗸫 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𗸫 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x97 0xB8 0xAB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81F 0xDE2B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00017E2B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81f\ude2b |
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 | 229.11 |
| kTGT_MergedSrc | L2008-1694 |