U+17EC9 "𗻉" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𗻉
U+17EC9 "𗻉" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific glyph from the Tangut script, an ancient logographic writing system used for the extinct Tangut language spoken during the Western Xia dynasty in northwestern China. This character is part of the Tangut Ideographs block in Unicode, which encodes thousands of these unique characters that were deciphered primarily through bilingual inscriptions and dictionaries. The exact meaning and phonetic value of U+17EC9 are established in academic Tangut studies, where it represents a distinct concept or morpheme, contributing to the reconstruction of this historical language and its rich cultural texts, including Buddhist scriptures and legal documents.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+17EC9 |
| 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 | 𗻉 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𗻉 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x97 0xBB 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81F 0xDEC9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00017EC9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81f\udec9 |
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 | L2008-3604 |