U+18171 "𘅱" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𘅱
U+18171 "𘅱" Tangut Ideograph-# is a single glyph from the Tangut script, an ancient logographic writing system used to record the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty (1038–1227) in northwestern China. This specific ideograph, whose exact meaning is determined by its context within deciphered Tangut texts, belongs to a large block of over 6,000 Tangut characters encoded in Unicode version 9.0 in 2016 to support digital preservation and scholarly research. The character is visually complex, constructed from dense, angular strokes typical of Tangut script, and it serves as a critical component for linguists and historians studying the language, culture, and governance of the Tangut Empire.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+18171 |
| 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 | 𘅱 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𘅱 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x98 0x85 0xB1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD820 0xDD71 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00018171 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud820\udd71 |
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 | 316.15 |
| kTGT_MergedSrc | L2008-6007 |