U+17189 "𗆉" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+17189 "𗆉" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific glyph from the Tangut script, a logographic writing system used for the extinct Tangut language spoken during the Western Xia dynasty (1038–1227) in what is now northwestern China. This character is part of a large block of Tangut ideographs encoded in Unicode, representing one of thousands of distinct symbols that each correspond to a syllable or morpheme in the language, recorded primarily in Buddhist texts and official documents. The Tangut script was famously complex and prolific, with over 6,000 known characters, and U+17189 remains largely undocumented in terms of its phonetic pronunciation or precise meaning, as many Tangut ideographs are only partly deciphered by modern linguists, making it a subject of ongoing scholarly research.