U+171B9 "𗆹" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+171B9 "𗆹" Tangut Ideograph-# is a component of the Tangut script, an ancient logographic writing system used for the extinct Tangut language spoken by the Tangut people of the Western Xia dynasty (1038–1227). This specific character represents a single Tangut ideogram, each of which corresponds to a syllable or a word, and it is encoded in the Unicode Tangut block as part of a comprehensive effort to digitally preserve and study the thousands of known Tangut glyphs. The exact meaning and pronunciation of the particular character are defined by scholarly research into Tangut texts, which were deciphered in the 20th century with the help of bilingual inscriptions and dictionaries.