U+17E8D "𗺍" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𗺍

U+17E8D "𗺍" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific character from the Tangut script, an ancient writing system used to record the now-extinct Tangut language spoken during the Western Xia dynasty in medieval China. This ideograph is part of the Tangut Ideographs block of Unicode, which includes thousands of complex logographic characters that were deciphered primarily through the study of a bilingual Chinese-Tangut dictionary. Like other Tangut characters, "𗺍" represents a single syllable and carries a particular meaning or grammatical function within the Tangut language, though the precise semantic value of this specific ideograph may not be widely known beyond specialized academic research. Its inclusion in Unicode enables digital preservation and study of this historically significant script.

General Properties

Code Point U+17E8D
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 𗺍
HTML Hex Encoding 𗺍
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x97 0xBA 0x8D
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD81F 0xDE8D
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00017E8D
C/C++/Java Escape \ud81f\ude8d

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 258.14
kTGT_MergedSrc L2008-4036