U+18B19 "𘬙" Khitan Small Script Character-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+18B19 "𘬙" Khitan Small Script Character-# is a single grapheme from the Khitan Small Script, a historical writing system used by the Khitan people who ruled the Liao Dynasty in northern China from the 10th to the 12th century. Unlike the earlier Khitan Large Script, this small script is a phonetically based syllabary that was used primarily for writing the Khitan language, which is now extinct and only partially deciphered by modern scholars. This specific character represents an individual syllabic unit whose exact phonetic value and meaning are still under investigation by linguists studying recovered epigraphic and manuscript sources. As part of the Unicode Standard's Supplementary Multilingual Plane, the inclusion of U+18B19 helps preserve and enable digital research into this ancient script, allowing for accurate textual representation and scholarly analysis of a key artifact of East Asian historical linguistics.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
𘬙 |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
𘬙 |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xF0 0x98 0xAC 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0xD822 0xDF19 |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x00018B19 |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\ud822\udf19 |
Unicode Properties