U+170ED "𗃭" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+170ED "𗃭" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific glyph from the Tangut script, a logographic writing system used to record the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia Empire (1038–1227) in present-day northwestern China. This character is part of a vast set of over 6,000 Tangut ideographs encoded in the Unicode Standard, contributing to the digital preservation and scholarly study of this once lost script. The Tangut script, created by imperial decree in 1036, was sophisticated and structurally inspired by Chinese characters but with its own distinct principles of composition, and U+170ED represents one of the many ideographs that researchers decode using the comprehensive Tangut dictionaries and linguistic reconstructions compiled from excavated manuscripts.