U+17E4E "𗹎" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𗹎
U+17E4E "𗹎" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific logogram from the Tangut script, an ancient writing system used for the extinct Tangut language spoken in the Western Xia Empire (11th–13th centuries). This character belongs to the Tangut Ideographs block in Unicode, which encodes over 6,000 symbols deciphered from historical manuscripts and inscriptions. The exact meaning of this particular ideograph is not fully known, as it carries an unidentified or placeholder semantic value, making it a subject of ongoing research in Sino-Tibetan historical linguistics and paleography. Its inclusion in Unicode helps preserve and digitalize this complex writing system for scholarly study and cultural heritage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+17E4E |
| 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 | 𗹎 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𗹎 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x97 0xB9 0x8E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81F 0xDE4E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00017E4E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81f\ude4e |
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 | 236.9 |
| kTGT_MergedSrc | L2008-0637 |