U+17E40 "ð—¹€" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+17E40 "ð—¹€" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific character from the Tangut script, an ancient writing system used for the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty (1038–1227). This particular ideograph is one of thousands of characters in the Tangut block included in Unicode, encoded as part of the effort to digitally preserve this historical script. As a logogram, it represents a specific word or morpheme, though its exact meaning and pronunciation are often reconstructed based on limited historical texts and scholarly research. The inclusion of such characters in Unicode facilitates academic study, digital representation, and cultural heritage preservation for linguists and historians working with Tangut manuscripts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+17E40 |
| 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 | 𗹀 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𗹀 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x97 0xB9 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81F 0xDE40 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00017E40 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81f\ude40 |
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 | 234.11 |
| kTGT_MergedSrc | L2008-0220 |