U+18700 "𘜀" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+18700 "𘜀" Tangut Ideograph-# is one of the thousands of ideographs in the Tangut script block, which was used to write the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty (1038–1227) in what is now northwestern China. This specific character represents a logographic symbol from that medieval writing system, which was deciphered in the 20th century through the study of bilingual texts and manuscripts. It is encoded in the Unicode Standard under the Tangut block to support digital preservation and scholarly research of this unique script, though its exact meaning and pronunciation may only be known to specialists in Tangut philology.