U+18B40 "𘭀" Khitan Small Script Character-# Unicode Character

U+18B40 "𘭀" Khitan Small Script Character-# is one of many logographic and syllabic signs in the Khitan Small Script, a writing system used between the 10th and 12th centuries by the Khitan people of the Liao Dynasty in northern China to record the Khitan language, which is now extinct. This particular character, identified as a "number" or generic glyph placeholder in official Unicode naming, represents a specific unit in a script that remains only partially deciphered, primarily through bilingual inscriptions and comparison with Chinese historical records. It belongs to a block of characters encoded in Unicode version 13.0, added in 2020 to support scholarly work and digital preservation of this ancient and enigmatic script.

General Properties

Code Point	U+18B40
Version Added	13.0
Name	Khitan Small Script Character-#
Block	Khitan Small Script
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𘭀
HTML Hex Encoding	𘭀
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x98 0xAD 0x80
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD822 0xDF40
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00018B40
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud822\udf40

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Alphabetic
East Asian Width	Wide
Script	Khitan Small Script
Script Extensions	Khitan Small Script
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
ID Start	Yes
XID Start	Yes
ID Continue	Yes
XID Continue	Yes
Alphabetic	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Upright
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	OLetter
Ideographic	Yes