U+17EC4 "ð—»„" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+17EC4 "ð—»„" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific symbol from the Tangut script, a historical writing system used for the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty (1038–1227) in present-day northwestern China. This character belongs to the Tangut Ideographs block in Unicode, which encodes thousands of logograms that represent words or morphemes, and its meaning is documented in the classic Tangut dictionary "Homophones" as representing the word for "scorpion." As with many Tangut characters, its pronunciation and usage are reconstructed from archaeological manuscripts and lexicons, and its inclusion in the Unicode Standard enables digital preservation and study of this unique medieval script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+17EC4 |
| 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 | 𗻄 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𗻄 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x97 0xBB 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81F 0xDEC4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00017EC4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81f\udec4 |
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 | 260.12 |
| kTGT_MergedSrc | L2008-2445 |