U+17E61 "𗹡" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𗹡
U+17E61 "𗹡" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific logogram from the extinct Tangut script, which was used to write the Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty in China from the 11th to the 16th centuries. This character is part of the Tangut Ideographs block in Unicode, assigned to represent a distinct semantic or phonetic concept within the Tangut writing system, which includes thousands of complex, block like characters that were deciphered primarily through bilingual texts like the Tangut Chinese glossaries. As a digital representation of a historical script, this character aids modern scholars and linguists in preserving and studying the Tangut language, culture, and its unique calligraphic tradition.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+17E61 |
| 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 | 𗹡 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𗹡 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x97 0xB9 0xA1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81F 0xDE61 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00017E61 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81f\ude61 |
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 | 243.12 |
| kTGT_MergedSrc | L2008-1959 |