U+17F57 "ð—½—" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

ð—½—

U+17F57 "ð—½—" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific glyph from the Tangut script, an ancient logographic writing system used for the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty (1038–1227). This character is part of the Tangut block in Unicode, which was added to support the digital encoding of historical texts, though its exact meaning or phonetic value may not be widely attested or standardized, as many Tangut characters remain partially deciphered by modern scholars. Represented by a unique combination of strokes and radicals, it demonstrates the complexity and visual distinctiveness of the Tangut script, which originally consisted of over 6,000 known ideographs. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures preservation and access for linguistic research and digital archiving of this lost language.

General Properties

Code Point U+17F57
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 𗽗
HTML Hex Encoding 𗽗
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x97 0xBD 0x97
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD81F 0xDF57
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00017F57
C/C++/Java Escape \ud81f\udf57

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 263.12
kTGT_MergedSrc L2008-3290