U+2B042 CJK Unified Ideo­graph-​2B042

U+2B042 was added to Unicode in version 5.2 (2009). It belongs to the block U+2A700 to U+2B73F CJK Unified Ideographs Extension C in the U+20000 to U+2FFFF Supplementary Ideographic Plane.

This character is a Other Letter and is mainly used in the Han script. The Unihan Database defines it as the swing of rice plant, a kind of paddy.

The glyph is not a composition. It has a Wide East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Left To Right and is not mirrored. In text U+2B042 behaves as Ideographic regarding line breaks. It has type Other Letter for sentence and Other for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.