U+17B96 "𗮖" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+17B96 "𗮖" Tangut Ideograph-# is part of the Tangut script, an ancient writing system used during the Western Xia dynasty (1038–1227) in what is now northwestern China, and it represents a single logographic symbol from the vast Tangut lexicon of over 6,000 known characters, many of which were deciphered through analysis of bilingual texts and dictionaries. This specific character, like others in the Tangut block, encodes a unique meaning or morpheme from the extinct Tangut language, and its inclusion in Unicode allows for digital preservation and scholarly study of this historical script.