U+17FF8 "𗿸" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𗿸
U+17FF8 "𗿸" Tangut Ideograph-# is a single encoded character from the Tangut script, a complex logographic writing system used for the extinct Tangut language spoken in the Tangut Empire (11th to 16th centuries) in what is now northwestern China. This specific ideograph is part of the Tangut block in Unicode, which was added to support the digital representation of historical manuscripts and texts. Like all Tangut characters, it represents a morpheme or word, and its exact meaning is typically identified through modern scholarship that cross references ancient Tangut dictionaries and Chinese glosses.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+17FF8 |
| 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 | 𗿸 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𗿸 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x97 0xBF 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81F 0xDFF8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00017FF8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81f\udff8 |
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 | 766.18 |
| kTGT_MergedSrc | L2008-3703 |