U+1714D "𗅍" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+1714D "𗅍" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific glyph from the Tangut script, a historical writing system used for the extinct Tangut language spoken by the Tangut people of the Western Xia dynasty in present day northwestern China. This character is part of the Tangut block in Unicode, which encodes over 6,000 logographic characters that were deciphered from manuscripts and inscriptions dating from the 11th to 13th centuries. As an ideograph, it represents a distinct lexical unit or morpheme, though its precise meaning has been identified through scholarly reconstruction of the Tangut lexicon based on multilingual dictionaries and textual analysis. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures digital preservation and research access to this unique script, which is critical for historians and linguists studying the culture of the lost Western Xia civilization.