U+17E9B "𗺛" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𗺛

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

Code Point U+17E9B
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 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

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 L2008-3244