U+17E57 "ð—¹—" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ð—¹—
U+17E57 "ð—¹—" Tangut Ideograph-# is part of the Tangut script, a historically complex writing system used for the extinct Tangut language of the Tangut Empire in northwestern China during the 11th to 16th centuries. This specific ideograph is classified as a Tangut ideographic character within the Unicode Standard, representing a unique logogram from a script that comprised thousands of intricate symbols. Its precise meaning, like many Tangut characters, remains a subject of philological research, as scholars continue to reconstruct the language from fragmented manuscripts and inscriptions. The inclusion of U+17E57 in Unicode ensures its digital preservation and accessibility for linguistic study and historical documentation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+17E57 |
| 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 | 𗹗 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𗹗 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x97 0xB9 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81F 0xDE57 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00017E57 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81f\ude57 |
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 | 236.13 |
| kTGT_MergedSrc | L2008-0474 |