U+17142 "𗅂" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+17142 "𗅂" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific character from the Tangut script, an ancient writing system used to record the extinct Tangut language spoken during the Western Xia dynasty in China (1038–1227). Assigned to the Tangut Ideographs block in Unicode, this particular logogram represents one of the thousands of distinct characters that were meticulously documented in the 12th-century Chinese-Tangut dictionary "Pearl in the Palm," though its exact modern transcription and meaning are not always fully identified to the general public. The inclusion of U+17142 in the Unicode Standard, as part of the Tangut encoding released in version 9.0 in 2016, allows for its digital preservation and scholarly study, aiding linguists and historians in deciphering the complex, character-rich morphology of this unique script.