U+17F38 "饤几" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
U+17F38 "饤几" Tangut Ideograph-# is a visually complex glyph from the Tangut script, an extinct writing system used for the Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty (1038–1227) in northwestern China. This specific ideograph corresponds to an ancient Tangut word, though its precise meaning is often documented in scholarly dictionaries as "unknown" or identified by a numbered entry due to the ongoing decipherment of the script. The character is composed of dense, intricate strokes typical of Tangut script, which is unrelated to Chinese characters and was designed with tens of thousands of distinct logographs. As part of the Unicode Tangut block, its encoding in 2016 for the standardization of digital text has enabled researchers to better preserve and study this historically significant but still partially mysterious writing system.