U+17FA8 "𗾨" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𗾨
U+17FA8 "𗾨" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific glyph from the Tangut script, a complex logographic writing system used to record the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty (11th–13th centuries). This character belongs to the Tangut Ideographs block of Unicode, which encodes thousands of distinct characters that were deciphered from historical manuscripts and inscriptions. Like other Tangut ideographs, U+17FA8 represents a single syllable and carries a specific meaning, though its exact semantic value is tied to ongoing philological research, as the language is only partially understood.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+17FA8 |
| 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 | 𗾨 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𗾨 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x97 0xBE 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81F 0xDFA8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00017FA8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81f\udfa8 |
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 | 267.11 |
| kTGT_MergedSrc | L2008-2890 |