U+17E7A "𗹺" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𗹺
U+17E7A "𗹺" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific character from the Tangut script, an ancient logographic writing system used to record the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty (1038–1227). As part of the Tangut block in Unicode, this ideograph represents a distinct word or morpheme, though its precise meaning and phonetic value are subjects of ongoing scholarly research due to the script’s complexity and limited decipherment. This character reflects the rich cultural and linguistic heritage of the Tangut civilization, and its inclusion in Unicode ensures its digital preservation for linguistic study, historical documentation, and font development efforts aimed at reviving and analyzing this unique writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+17E7A |
| 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 | 𗹺 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𗹺 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x97 0xB9 0xBA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81F 0xDE7A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00017E7A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81f\ude7a |
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 | L2008-3765 |