U+17FCD "𗿍" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+17FCD "𗿍" Tangut Ideograph-# is a component of the Tangut script, an ancient writing system used by the Tangut people of the Western Xia dynasty (1038–1227) in northwestern China. This specific ideograph, numbered as part of the vast Tangut repertoire of over 6,000 logographic characters, has not yet been fully deciphered or assigned a definitive meaning by linguists, as many Tangut texts remain only partially understood. It encodes a distinct graphic shape composed of strokes typical of Tangut script, which was designed by Emperor Li Yuanhao in 1036 to record the Tangut language, a now-extinct member of the Tibeto-Burman language family. The inclusion of this character in Unicode preserves access to historical manuscripts and enables digital research into Tangut philology.