U+17C01 "𗰁" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+17C01 "𗰁" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific glyph from the Tangut script, an ancient writing system used primarily between the 11th and 16th centuries in the Western Xia dynasty in northwestern China. This character belongs to a vast set of logographic symbols that were used to write the Tangut language, which is now extinct but remains partially deciphered through surviving manuscripts and inscriptions. The character itself represents a single lexical unit, though its precise meaning is often still being studied by scholars and may correspond to a concept or object in the Tangut lexicon. It is encoded in Unicode’s Tangut block, which was added to support digital representation and research of this historically significant script.