U+17E5E "𗹞" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𗹞
U+17E5E "𗹞" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific glyph from the Tangut script, an ancient writing system used for the extinct Tangut language spoken in the Western Xia Empire from the 11th to 16th centuries. This character belongs to a vast syllabary of over 6,000 ideographs, many of which have complex logographic structures representing morphemes or syllables. The Tangut script was deciphered in the 20th century through analysis of bilingual inscriptions and dictionaries, with this particular ideograph being part of a standardized block in the Unicode Standard that allows for digital preservation and study of the language and its historical texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+17E5E |
| 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 | 𗹞 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𗹞 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x97 0xB9 0x9E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81F 0xDE5E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00017E5E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81f\ude5e |
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 | 243.11 |
| kTGT_MergedSrc | L2008-2391 |