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𗳨

tangut ideograph-17ce8

Tangut character 17CE8

𗳨 is a Tangut text character, not emoji artwork; as of 2026, its English gloss remains uncertain. The Tangut script was created in 1036 for the Western Xia state and served official, Buddhist, legal, and economic writing; it remained in use after the state fell in 1227. Catalogs reconstruct its reading as dźia² and list left component 𘣀 and right component 𘥾; its display depends on font support.

Text symbol

What 𗳨 means

𗳨 is the tangut ideograph-17ce8. Unicode classifies it as a letter and files it in the Tangut block; this site shelves it under Chinese, Japanese & Korean.

Its appearance depends on the font and text styling.

How it is encoded

𗳨 is a single code point, U17CE8. In HTML that is 𗳨, and in CSS \17CE8.

Who writes 𗳨

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Questions people ask

Why does 𗳨 show as a box on some devices?

Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.

How to type or find 𗳨

Search it as: dźia · LFW2008-0562 · Xixia
Shows up in: Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

Windows (Word)

⎇Alt+XType 17CE8, then AltX to get 𗳨.

Windows

⊞Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win .).

macOS

⌃Control+⌘Command+␣SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “tangut ideograph-17ce8”.

Linux

⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType 17ce8, then Enter or Space.

HTML

𗳨

CSS

\17CE8

Codes and encoding1 code points

HTML decimal

𗳨

HTML hex

𗳨

CSS content

content: "\17CE8";

Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.

URL encoded

%F0%97%B3%A8

On screen

Code points

JS .length

UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

Families this belongs to

Chinese, Japanese & Korean121,370 symbols

ᄀ ᄁ ᄂ ᄃ ᄄ ᄅ ᄆ ᄇ ᄈ ᄉ ᄊ ᄋ