U+17F59 "ð—½™" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ð—½™
U+17F59 "ð—½™" Tangut Ideograph-# is a logographic symbol from the Tangut script, an ancient writing system used for the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty in northwestern China (11th–14th centuries). This specific ideograph, like others in the Tangut block, represents a word or morpheme with a particular phonetic and semantic value, though its exact meaning is often deciphered through comparative textual analysis of surviving manuscripts and dictionaries. Its inclusion in Unicode enables digital preservation and scholarly study of this historical script, which is crucial for understanding the culture and administration of the Western Xia empire.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+17F59 |
| 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 | 𗽙 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𗽙 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x97 0xBD 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81F 0xDF59 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00017F59 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81f\udf59 |
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 | L2008-2741 |