U+17F99 "ð—¾™" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

ð—¾™

U+17F99 "ð—¾™" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific character from the Tangut script, an ancient logographic writing system used during the Western Xia dynasty (1038–1227) to write the extinct Tangut language. This character is part of the Tangut Ideographs block in Unicode, which encodes thousands of these complex glyphs that represent syllables or morphemes, rather than individual letters. Because the Tangut script was deciphered in the early 20th century through the study of bilingual texts and dictionaries, each character like U+17F99 carries a unique phonetic and semantic meaning, though its precise translation and usage are often known only through scholarly reconstruction. Its inclusion in the Unicode Standard ensures that this historical writing system can be digitally preserved and studied.

General Properties

Code Point U+17F99
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 𗾙
HTML Hex Encoding 𗾙
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x97 0xBE 0x99
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD81F 0xDF99
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00017F99
C/C++/Java Escape \ud81f\udf99

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 L2008-3800