U+183BD "𘎽" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+183BD "𘎽" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific glyph from the Tangut script, an ancient writing system used to record the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty (1038–1227 C.E.) in northwestern China. This character is part of a large block of over 6,000 ideographs that were encoded in Unicode to preserve and digitally represent the complex logographic Tangut script, which was first deciphered in the early 20th century using bilingual inscriptions. The particular ideograph corresponds to a unique lexical entry in the Tangut dictionary, though its specific meaning and pronunciation are often known only through the painstaking work of philologists who compare it with surviving manuscripts and Chinese glosses. Its inclusion in Unicode enables researchers, linguists, and digital humanities projects to accurately transcribe, search, and analyze historical Tangut texts without relying on mere image representations.