U+18517 "𘔗" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𘔗
U+18517 "𘔗" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific ideograph used in the Tangut script, a historical writing system employed primarily for the extinct Tangut language during the Western Xia dynasty in China from the 11th to the 13th centuries. This character comes from the Tangut Ideographs block, which encompasses thousands of logograms, and is one of many used in religious, legal, and administrative texts. The exact meaning and pronunciation of "𘔗" are not widely known outside specialized linguistic research, as many Tangut characters await full decipherment, but its inclusion in Unicode helps preserve this unique written heritage for digital use and scholarly study.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+18517 |
| 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 | 𘔗 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𘔗 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x98 0x94 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD821 0xDD17 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00018517 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud821\udd17 |
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 | 490.12 |
| kTGT_MergedSrc | L2008-1235 |