U+17FAC "𗾬" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𗾬
U+17FAC "𗾬" Tangut Ideograph-# is a single logogram from the extinct Tangut script, which was used to write the Tangut language during the Western Xia dynasty in medieval China, between the 11th and 16th centuries. This specific character, part of a vast syllabary of over 6,000 distinct ideographs, represents a morpheme or word, though its exact semantic meaning remains unidentified or undetermined in modern scholarship due to the limited corpus of deciphered texts. Encoding it in Unicode allows for digital preservation and study of this historically significant script, which was rediscovered and partially decoded through archaeological findings and linguistic research.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+17FAC |
| 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 | 𗾬 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𗾬 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x97 0xBE 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81F 0xDFAC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00017FAC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81f\udfac |
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 | 267.12 |
| kTGT_MergedSrc | L2008-2208 |