U+17EB5 "𗺵" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𗺵
U+17EB5 "𗺵" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific glyph from the Tangut script, a historical writing system used to record the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty in medieval China. This character represents an ideographic concept, though its precise meaning is not universally defined in modern context, as Tangut characters often convey syllables or morphemes within the logographic script. It belongs to the Tangut block of Unicode, a collection of over 6,000 characters encoded to preserve and enable digital representation of this ancient language for scholarly research and linguistic preservation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+17EB5 |
| 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 | 𗺵 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𗺵 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x97 0xBA 0xB5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81F 0xDEB5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00017EB5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81f\udeb5 |
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 | 260.11 |
| kTGT_MergedSrc | L2008-3793 |