U+17117 "𗄗" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+17117 "𗄗" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific ideograph from the Tangut script, a logographic writing system used to record the extinct Tangut language spoken by the Tangut people of the Western Xia dynasty (1038–1227) in present-day northwestern China. This character belongs to the Tangut Supplement block, which was added to the Unicode Standard to encode a collection of over 6,000 known Tangut characters, and it represents a unique lexical or phonetic element within the script, though its precise meaning and pronunciation are studied by scholars through historical manuscripts and dictionaries like the "Homophones" and "Sea of Characters."