Tangut character 17F9E

One Tangut passage glosses 𗾞 as “sun” or “day.”

That reading comes from a scholarly Tangut–Chinese comparison of a Tangut translation of Sunzi, a Chinese military text; the line describes something as bright as daylight. It supports this sense in that passage, not a fixed meaning for every occurrence.

Tangut writing was created around 1036–1037 for the Tangut language in the state of Western Xia. Its design drew on Chinese and Khitan writing, another regional script, but it represents Tangut rather than Chinese. A Tangut inscription dated 1502 documents later use of the script.