U+17EFD "ð—»½" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ð—»½
U+17EFD "ð—»½" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific logographic symbol from the Tangut script, which was used to write the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty in medieval China. Part of the Tangut Ideographs block in Unicode, this character represents a single morpheme or word, though its precise meaning is often tied to the limited corpus of deciphered texts, as the Tangut script features over 6,000 known characters. The inclusion of this character in Unicode enables digital preservation and study of this historical writing system, facilitating scholarly research into Tangut language, literature, and the cultural legacy of the Western Xia civilization.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+17EFD |
| 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 | 𗻽 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𗻽 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x97 0xBB 0xBD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81F 0xDEFD |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00017EFD |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81f\udefd |
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 | 261.11 |
| kTGT_MergedSrc | L2008-2174 |