U+17ED8 "𗻘" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+17ED8 "𗻘" Tangut Ideograph-# is part of the Tangut script block, which was used to write the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty (1038-1227) in present-day northwestern China. This specific ideograph represents a single Tangut character, though its exact meaning and pronunciation are not fully known or universally agreed upon due to the complex decipherment process of the script. The character was encoded in Unicode version 9.0 released in 2016, as part of a major effort to digitally preserve the approximately 6,000 known Tangut ideographs, which are visually intricate and structurally distinct from Chinese characters.

General Properties

Code Point	U+17ED8
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	𗻘
HTML Hex Encoding	𗻘
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x97 0xBB 0x98
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD81F 0xDED8
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00017ED8
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud81f\uded8

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	L2008-2281