U+18342 "𘍂" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𘍂
U+18342 "𘍂" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific glyph from the Tangut script, an ancient writing system used for the Tangut language during the Western Xia dynasty in China from the 11th to the 16th centuries. This ideograph represents one of the thousands of logographic characters in the script, each often combining semantic and phonetic components to convey meaning and sound. Assigned to the Tangut block of Unicode, U+18342 is part of a larger effort to digitally encode this extinct language, allowing scholars and enthusiasts to study, preserve, and share Tangut texts in modern computing environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+18342 |
| 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 | 𘍂 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𘍂 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x98 0x8D 0x82 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD820 0xDF42 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00018342 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud820\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 | 419.13 |
| kTGT_MergedSrc | L2008-5504 |