U+18157 "𘅗" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+18157 "𘅗" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific glyph from the Tangut script, an ancient writing system used for the extinct Tangut language spoken by the Tangut people of the Western Xia dynasty (1038–1227) in present-day northwestern China. This character is part of the Unicode Tangut block, which encodes thousands of logographic characters that were deciphered primarily through bilingual inscriptions and dictionaries. The Tangut script, known for its complex and systematic composition, was officially added to the Unicode Standard in 2016 to support scholarly research and digital preservation of this historical language. U+18157 itself represents one of many ideographs whose precise meaning and phonetic value are derived from linguistic analysis of classical Tangut texts, though its specific translation is not widely documented outside specialist literature.