U+17F42 "𗽂" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𗽂
U+17F42 "𗽂" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific glyph from the Tangut script, an extinct writing system used to record the Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty (11th–13th centuries) in what is now northwestern China. This character is part of the Tangut Ideographs block in the Unicode Standard, which was added to support digital encoding of historical texts, and it represents a single logographic or semantic unit. Its exact meaning and pronunciation are often determined through scholarly analysis of Tangut manuscripts, as the script’s complex structure combines radicals and phonetic components to convey distinct words in the Tangut language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+17F42 |
| 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 | 𗽂 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𗽂 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x97 0xBD 0x82 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81F 0xDF42 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00017F42 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81f\udf42 |
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 | 263.11 |
| kTGT_MergedSrc | L2008-2285 |