U+17EB8 "𗺸" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𗺸
U+17EB8 "𗺸" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific logogram from the Tangut script, a historical writing system used for the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty (1038–1227). This character is part of the Tangut Ideographs block in Unicode, which was encoded to support the digital representation of thousands of unique Tangut characters. Each Tangut ideograph, including U+17EB8, represents a distinct word or morpheme, and its exact meaning is often determined through scholarly analysis of historical texts. The inclusion of such characters in Unicode allows for the preservation and study of this ancient script in modern computing environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+17EB8 |
| 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 | 𗺸 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𗺸 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x97 0xBA 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81F 0xDEB8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00017EB8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81f\udeb8 |
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 | L2008-3164 |