U+17EA5 "𗺥" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+17EA5 "𗺥" Tangut Ideograph-# is a single logographic glyph representing a word or morpheme from the extinct Tangut language, which was used in the Tangut Empire of northwestern China from the 11th to 16th centuries. This character is part of the Tangut block in Unicode, a large set numbering nearly 6,000 ideographs that were designed for the Tangut script, which itself was a complex writing system modeled partly after Chinese characters. Like other Tangut ideographs, its exact meaning and phonetic value have been reconstructed by scholars through comparative analysis of bilingual texts and dictionaries, though many characters remain partially or fully undeciphered. The inclusion of this character in Unicode ensures its digital preservation and allows for modern research and encoding in historical and linguistic contexts.