U+17ED5 "𗻕" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𗻕
U+17ED5 "𗻕" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific glyph from the Tangut script, a logographic writing system used to record the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty (1038–1227). This particular character belongs to the extensive collection of over 6,000 Tangut ideographs encoded in the Unicode Standard, which were deciphered largely through the study of bilingual texts and linguistic analysis. While its exact meaning is not widely known outside specialized philological research, it forms part of a complex script that was used for official, religious, and literary purposes, representing a critical piece of Central Asian historical and linguistic heritage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+17ED5 |
| 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 | 𗻕 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𗻕 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x97 0xBB 0x95 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81F 0xDED5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00017ED5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81f\uded5 |
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 | 260.13 |
| kTGT_MergedSrc | L2008-2170 |