U+17E9C "𗺜" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𗺜
U+17E9C "𗺜" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific character from the Tangut script, a logographic writing system historically used for the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty in northwestern China. This particular ideograph represents a single morpheme or word, part of a large corpus of over 6,000 known Tangut characters, many of which were deciphered in the 20th century through analysis of bilingual texts and dictionaries. Its inclusion in Unicode under the Tangut block helps preserve and digitally encode this ancient script, aiding scholarly study and cultural heritage efforts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+17E9C |
| 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 | 𗺜 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𗺜 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x97 0xBA 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81F 0xDE9C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00017E9C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81f\ude9c |
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 | L2008-3650 |