Tangut Component-171

No; it labels a structural piece, not a translated Tangut word. Dictionaries use numbered components to organize and describe Tangut's full characters. Different component catalogues can divide or order those pieces differently, so 171 is a modern inventory label, not an old Tangut word or pronunciation.

Tangut writing uses square signs for the Tangut language, which is distinct from Chinese. Chinese writing influenced its design, but that influence does not make this component a Chinese character or a picture whose shape translates itself.

When did people use the Tangut script?

Surviving Tangut texts are dated 1036–1502. The Tangut script, also called Xixia writing, was commissioned by Western Xia, a Tangut-ruled state, for government and for translations of Buddhist works and Chinese classics. The number belongs to later component catalogues, not to the script's founders.

Tangut writing survived in manuscripts and printed Buddhist texts beyond the state's rule. Modern dictionaries use components to index and analyze its characters, so this numbered entry belongs to the study of a writing system once used for administration and translation.