U+17EC8 "𗻈" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+17EC8 "𗻈" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific ideograph from the historical Tangut script, which was used for writing the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty (1038–1227) in present-day northwestern China. This character belongs to the Tangut block of the Unicode standard, which was encoded to preserve and facilitate digital study of this unique logographic writing system, comprising thousands of complex characters modeled after Chinese script. As a Tangut ideograph, "𗻈" represents a lexical concept from that language, though its exact meaning is determined through scholarly analysis of surviving texts, such as bilingual inscriptions and the Pearl in the Palm dictionary, making it a vital tool for historians and linguists working to decode this ancient civilization's written records.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
𗻈 |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
𗻈 |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xF0 0x97 0xBB 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0xD81F 0xDEC8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x00017EC8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\ud81f\udec8 |
Unicode Properties