U+17E9B "𗺛" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+17E9B "𗺛" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific character from the Tangut script, a historical logographic writing system used to write the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty in medieval China. It belongs to the Tangut Ideographs block of the Unicode Standard, which was added to encode thousands of characters deciphered from ancient Tangut texts. The character itself represents a distinct word or morpheme, though its exact semantic meaning is often identified through scholarly study of Tangut manuscripts and dictionaries. Its inclusion in Unicode allows for digital preservation and research of this unique script, which is primarily of interest to historians and linguists studying the culture and language of the Western Xia empire.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
𗺛 |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
𗺛 |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xF0 0x97 0xBA 0x9B |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0xD81F 0xDE9B |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x00017E9B |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\ud81f\ude9b |
Unicode Properties