U+17EF6 "𗻶" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+17EF6 "𗻶" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific logogram from the Tangut script, a complex writing system used to record the now extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty (1038–1227 CE). This character belongs to the Tangut block of Unicode, which was added to encode the thousands of ideographs found in historical manuscripts, such as the Tangut translation of Buddhist sutras and legal texts. The exact semantic meaning and pronunciation of this particular ideograph are typically determined by its context in surviving Tangut documents, and it is part of a script that features over six thousand known characters, making it one of the most intricate writing systems ever developed.

General Properties

Code Point	U+17EF6
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	𗻶
HTML Hex Encoding	𗻶
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x97 0xBB 0xB6
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD81F 0xDEF6
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00017EF6
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud81f\udef6

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	260.16
kTGT_MergedSrc	L2008-3162