U+17CCF "𗳏" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+17CCF "𗳏" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific ideograph from the Tangut script, a historical writing system used for the extinct Tangut language that was spoken during the Western Xia dynasty (1038–1227) in what is now northwestern China. This character belongs to the Tangut Supplement block of Unicode, which was added to encode additional Tangut characters beyond the original Tangut block. Like all Tangut ideographs, it represents a single morpheme or word, though its exact meaning and pronunciation are typically derived from the extensive body of Tangut texts, which were deciphered through analysis of bilingual Chinese-Tangut dictionaries and Buddhist scriptures. The character is one of over six thousand Tangut glyphs that were standardized in Unicode to preserve and digitally represent this ancient script for scholarly research and cultural heritage.