U+17F3E "ð—¼¾" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+17F3E "ð—¼¾" Tangut Ideograph-# is part of the Tangut script, an ancient writing system used for the extinct Tangut language spoken by the Tangut people of the Western Xia dynasty in northwest China between the 11th and 16th centuries. This specific ideograph is one of over 6,000 known Tangut characters, which were logographic like Chinese characters but structurally more complex and distinct in design. The character shape combines various strokes and radicals to represent a specific word or morpheme, though its exact meaning and pronunciation are often reconstructed through comparative philology and analysis of surviving Tangut texts. U+17F3E was officially encoded in the Unicode Standard as part of the Tangut block to preserve and facilitate digital study of this historically significant script, aiding scholars in deciphering the cultural and linguistic heritage of the Western Xia civilization.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
𗼾 |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
𗼾 |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xF0 0x97 0xBC 0xBE |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0xD81F 0xDF3E |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x00017F3E |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\ud81f\udf3e |
Unicode Properties