U+17E78 "𗹸" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𗹸
U+17E78 "𗹸" Tangut Ideograph-# is a single logographic character from the Tangut script, which was used to write the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty in medieval China. This character belongs to a large block of Tangut ideographs encoded in the Unicode standard, specifically within the Supplementary Multilingual Plane. While the precise meaning and phonetic value of U+17E78 are not widely known outside specialized historical and linguistic scholarship, its inclusion in Unicode allows for the digital preservation and study of this once lost writing system, which was deciphered from manuscript fragments found in sites like Khara-Khoto.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+17E78 |
| 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 | 𗹸 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𗹸 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x97 0xB9 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81F 0xDE78 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00017E78 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81f\ude78 |
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 | 245.11 |
| kTGT_MergedSrc | L2008-2717 |