U+18A42 "𘩂" Tangut Component-579 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𘩂
U+18A42 "𘩂" Tangut Component-579 is a graphical element used in the encoding of the Tangut script, a historical writing system of the Tangut Empire in medieval China. This specific component serves as one of the radical-like structural building blocks that combine to form the logographic Tangut characters, which number in the thousands. As part of the Tangut Components block in Unicode, it was introduced to facilitate digital representation and research of this extinct script, allowing scholars to analyze, reconstruct, and preserve the complex morphology of the Tangut writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+18A42 |
| Version Added | 9.0 |
| Name | Tangut Component-579 |
| Block | Tangut Components |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𘩂 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𘩂 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x98 0xA9 0x82 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD822 0xDE42 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00018A42 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud822\ude42 |