U+17F09 "𗼉" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𗼉
U+17F09 "𗼉" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific logographic symbol from the Tangut script, a complex writing system historically used for the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty in medieval China. This character represents one of the thousands of ideographs encoded in the Tangut block of Unicode, each typically signifying a distinct word or syllable. While its precise meaning and pronunciation have been deciphered through scholarly analysis of Tangut texts and dictionaries, U+17F09 remains part of a broader effort to digitally preserve and study the linguistic heritage of the Tangut civilization, ensuring that these ancient characters are accessible for research and cultural documentation in modern computing environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+17F09 |
| 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 | 𗼉 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𗼉 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x97 0xBC 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81F 0xDF09 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00017F09 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81f\udf09 |
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 | 262.9 |
| kTGT_MergedSrc | L2008-3751 |