U+17149 "𗅉" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+17149 "𗅉" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific character from the Tangut script, a historical writing system used for the extinct Tangut language spoken by the Tangut people of the Western Xia dynasty (1038–1227). This ideograph represents a single Tangut word or morpheme, encoded in the Tangut block of the Unicode Standard as part of the ongoing effort to digitally preserve and support ancient scripts. Its exact meaning and phonetic value are cataloged in scholarly dictionaries of Tangut, reflecting the complex logographic nature of the script, which was invented in the 11th century and comprises thousands of characters. The inclusion of U+17149 in Unicode ensures that researchers, linguists, and digital archivists can accurately represent and study this rare and culturally significant writing system in modern computing environments.