U+17ECA "𗻊" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𗻊
U+17ECA "𗻊" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific glyph from the Tangut script, a historic writing system used to document the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty in medieval China. This particular ideograph represents a single lexical or semantic unit, with its precise meaning and pronunciation reconstructed by philologists through the study of surviving Tangut manuscripts and lexicographic sources. As part of the Tangut block in Unicode, this character is used primarily for scholarly purposes in digital linguistics, history, and paleography, aiding in the preservation and analysis of this unique and largely undeciphered logographic script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+17ECA |
| 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 | 𗻊 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𗻊 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x97 0xBB 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81F 0xDECA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00017ECA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81f\udeca |
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 | L2008-3699 |