U+17EC6 "𗻆" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𗻆

U+17EC6 "𗻆" Tangut Ideograph-# is a single logographic glyph from the Tangut script, a complex writing system used to record the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty (1038–1227). This character belongs to the Tangut Ideographs block in the Supplementary Multilingual Plane and was encoded in Unicode version 9.0 in 2016. Like all Tangut characters, it represents a specific word or morpheme, though its exact meaning and pronunciation are known only through scholarly reconstruction based on excavated texts and bilingual inscriptions. The character's inclusion in Unicode helps preserve a key part of Central Asian historical and linguistic heritage, enabling digital research and documentation of a culture that was lost for centuries.

General Properties

Code Point U+17EC6
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 𗻆
HTML Hex Encoding 𗻆
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x97 0xBB 0x86
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD81F 0xDEC6
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00017EC6
C/C++/Java Escape \ud81f\udec6

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 L2008-2687