U+17E42 "𗹂" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+17E42 "𗹂" Tangut Ideograph-# is a single logographic glyph from the Tangut script, an ancient writing system used for the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty (11th–13th centuries). This character belongs to the Tangut block of the Unicode Standard, which encodes thousands of such ideographs that were deciphered from historical texts and manuscripts. Like other Tangut characters, its specific meaning and phonetic value are documented in scholarly compilations, but without specialized reference works or digital font support, its exact semantic representation remains largely unknown to general users, primarily serving as a placeholder for historical linguistic research.

General Properties

Code Point	U+17E42
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	𗹂
HTML Hex Encoding	𗹂
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x97 0xB9 0x82
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD81F 0xDE42
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00017E42
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud81f\ude42

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	234.11
kTGT_MergedSrc	L2008-0746