U+17F43 "𗽃" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𗽃

U+17F43 "𗽃" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific character from the Tangut script, an ancient writing system used by the Tangut people of the Western Xia dynasty (1038–1227) in what is now northwestern China. This ideograph is part of the Tangut block in Unicode, which was added to the standard to preserve and digitize the thousands of logographic characters that were used to write the Tangut language, a now extinct Tibeto-Burman language. The precise meaning or phonetic value of this particular character is not broadly known to the general public, as Tangut script studies remain a specialized field, but each ideograph typically represents a syllable or a word, and U+17F43 contributes to the rich corpus of historical texts being made accessible for modern research and digital preservation.

General Properties

Code Point U+17F43
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 𗽃
HTML Hex Encoding 𗽃
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x97 0xBD 0x83
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD81F 0xDF43
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00017F43
C/C++/Java Escape \ud81f\udf43

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 263.11
kTGT_MergedSrc L2008-2654