U+17EA4 "𗺤" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+17EA4 "𗺤" Tangut Ideograph-# is a composition of strokes and radicals representing a distinct logographic meaning within the Tangut script, a complex writing system used for the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty (1038–1227). This specific ideograph encodes a single semantic and phonetic value, part of the vast corpus of several thousand Tangut characters that were carved into stone stelae and recorded in manuscripts, nearly forgotten until rediscovery and decoding efforts in the 20th century. Its inclusion in the Unicode Standard facilitates digital preservation, scholarly research, and accurate representation of this historical script across modern computing platforms.

General Properties

Code Point	U+17EA4
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	𗺤
HTML Hex Encoding	𗺤
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x97 0xBA 0xA4
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD81F 0xDEA4
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00017EA4
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud81f\udea4

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	260.10
kTGT_MergedSrc	L2008-2676