U+17E99 "𗺙" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𗺙
U+17E99 "𗺙" Tangut Ideograph-# is a component of the Tangut script, an ancient logographic writing system used during the Western Xia dynasty (1038-1227 CE) in what is now northwestern China. This particular ideograph is one of over 6,000 known Tangut characters, each representing a word or morpheme, and it is encoded in Unicode’s Tangut block to preserve and enable digital representation of this historical script. The character’s exact meaning remains under scholarly study, as the Tangut language is only partially deciphered, but its inclusion in Unicode aids researchers and linguists in cataloging and analyzing these unique ideographs.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+17E99 |
| 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 | 𗺙 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𗺙 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x97 0xBA 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81F 0xDE99 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00017E99 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81f\ude99 |
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 | 260.9 |
| kTGT_MergedSrc | L2008-2271 |