U+17EFE "ð—»¾" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+17EFE "ð—»¾" Tangut Ideograph-# is a member of the Tangut script, an ancient writing system used primarily between the 11th and 16th centuries in the Western Xia dynasty (also known as Tangut Empire) in what is now northwestern China. Assigned to the Tangut Ideographs block within Unicode, this specific ideograph represents a unique logographic character from the vast Tangut lexicon, which comprises thousands of complex, Chinese-inspired glyphs used to write the extinct Tangut language. Its precise meaning remains largely unknown to modern scholars, as the script was deciphered only partially through analysis of bilingual texts and dictionaries. The inclusion of characters like U+17EFE in Unicode helps preserve this historical writing system for digital use and facilitates ongoing linguistic research into the Tangut civilization.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
𗻾 |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
𗻾 |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xF0 0x97 0xBB 0xBE |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0xD81F 0xDEFE |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x00017EFE |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\ud81f\udefe |
Unicode Properties