U+17F38 "饤几" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

饤几

U+17F38 "饤几" Tangut Ideograph-# is a visually complex glyph from the Tangut script, an extinct writing system used for the Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty (1038–1227) in northwestern China. This specific ideograph corresponds to an ancient Tangut word, though its precise meaning is often documented in scholarly dictionaries as "unknown" or identified by a numbered entry due to the ongoing decipherment of the script. The character is composed of dense, intricate strokes typical of Tangut script, which is unrelated to Chinese characters and was designed with tens of thousands of distinct logographs. As part of the Unicode Tangut block, its encoding in 2016 for the standardization of digital text has enabled researchers to better preserve and study this historically significant but still partially mysterious writing system.

General Properties

Code Point U+17F38
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 𗼸
HTML Hex Encoding 𗼸
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x97 0xBC 0xB8
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD81F 0xDF38
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00017F38
C/C++/Java Escape \ud81f\udf38

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 263.10
kTGT_MergedSrc L2008-2077