U+17F97 "𗾗" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𗾗

U+17F97 "𗾗" Tangut Ideograph-# is a single character from the Tangut script, an ancient logographic writing system used during the Western Xia dynasty (1038–1227) to record the extinct Tangut language. This character, like all Tangut ideographs, represents a specific word or morpheme and is part of a large set of over 6,000 encoded characters in Unicode’s Tangut block, which was standardized to preserve and enable digital study of this historical script. The exact meaning and reading of U+17F97 are not widely known outside specialized scholarship, as the decipherment of many Tangut characters remains ongoing, but its inclusion in the Unicode standard ensures that such linguistic and historical research can continue in modern digital environments.

General Properties

Code Point U+17F97
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 𗾗
HTML Hex Encoding 𗾗
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x97 0xBE 0x97
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD81F 0xDF97
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00017F97
C/C++/Java Escape \ud81f\udf97

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 267.10
kTGT_MergedSrc L2008-3670