U+17C42 "𗱂" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𗱂
U+17C42 "𗱂" Tangut Ideograph-# is a rare and historical glyph from the Tangut script, a logographic writing system used to record the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty in medieval China. This specific ideograph belongs to a large block of Tangut characters encoded in the Supplementary Multilingual Plane, representing one of the thousands of distinct symbols that were crafted to mirror Chinese writing but with unique structural components and phonetic values. Its precise meaning remains a subject of scholarly research, as many Tangut characters are still being deciphered from ancient manuscripts and inscriptions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+17C42 |
| 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 | 𗱂 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𗱂 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x97 0xB1 0x82 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81F 0xDC42 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00017C42 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81f\udc42 |
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 | 184.11 |
| kTGT_MergedSrc | L2008-0718 |