U+17E2D "ð—¸­" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

ð—¸­

U+17E2D "ð—¸­" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific glyph from the Tangut script, an ancient writing system used to record the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty (1038–1227 CE). This character belongs to the Tangut Ideographs block of the Unicode Standard, which encodes over 6,000 known Tangut logograms, each representing a syllable or morpheme. The precise meaning or reading of "ð—¸­" is not universally agreed upon, as the script was deciphered primarily through bilingual texts and dictionaries, but it is one of many characters that scholars have linked to specific Chinese or Tibetan equivalents in historical documents. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures digital preservation and study of this historically significant but largely undeciphered language, though reading it remains a specialized field of philological research.

General Properties

Code Point U+17E2D
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 𗸭
HTML Hex Encoding 𗸭
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x97 0xB8 0xAD
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD81F 0xDE2D
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00017E2D
C/C++/Java Escape \ud81f\ude2d

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 229.13
kTGT_MergedSrc L2008-0894