U+17142 "ð—…‚" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

ð—…‚

U+17142 "ð—…‚" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific character from the Tangut script, an ancient writing system used to record the extinct Tangut language spoken during the Western Xia dynasty in China (1038–1227). Assigned to the Tangut Ideographs block in Unicode, this particular logogram represents one of the thousands of distinct characters that were meticulously documented in the 12th-century Chinese-Tangut dictionary "Pearl in the Palm," though its exact modern transcription and meaning are not always fully identified to the general public. The inclusion of U+17142 in the Unicode Standard, as part of the Tangut encoding released in version 9.0 in 2016, allows for its digital preservation and scholarly study, aiding linguists and historians in deciphering the complex, character-rich morphology of this unique script.

General Properties

Code Point U+17142
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 𗅂
HTML Hex Encoding 𗅂
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x97 0x85 0x82
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD81C 0xDD42
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00017142
C/C++/Java Escape \ud81c\udd42

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 17.8
kTGT_MergedSrc L2008-2708