U+17FCA "ð—¿Š" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

ð—¿Š

U+17FCA "ð—¿Š" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific symbol from the Tangut script, an ancient logographic writing system used by the Tangut people during the Western Xia dynasty (1038–1227 CE) in what is now northwestern China. This character represents a single ideograph whose precise meaning and pronunciation have been reconstructed through scholarly study of Tangut texts, though its exact semantic value may not be widely known outside of specialist linguistic or historical contexts. As part of the Tangut Unicode block, U+17FCA contributes to the digital preservation and encoding of this extinct script, allowing researchers and enthusiasts to access and analyze it in modern computing environments. The Tangut script itself was largely forgotten after the fall of the Western Xia but has been deciphered over the past century using multilingual inscriptions and dictionaries.

General Properties

Code Point U+17FCA
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 𗿊
HTML Hex Encoding 𗿊
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x97 0xBF 0x8A
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD81F 0xDFCA
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00017FCA
C/C++/Java Escape \ud81f\udfca

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 766.13
kTGT_MergedSrc L2008-3322