U+18B42 "𘭂" Khitan Small Script Character-# Unicode Character

U+18B42 "𘭂" Khitan Small Script Character-# is a specific logogram or syllabogram from the Khitan small script, an ancient writing system used between the 10th and 12th centuries by the Khitan people of the Liao Dynasty in northern China. This character is part of a large, largely undeciphered block of the Unicode standard (range U+18B00 to U+18CFF) dedicated to preserving and encoding these rare historical symbols. Its precise phonetic value or meaning remains unknown to scholars, as the Khitan small script has only been partially deciphered through analysis of bilingual inscriptions and lexical studies.

General Properties

Code Point	U+18B42
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	𘭂
HTML Hex Encoding	𘭂
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x98 0xAD 0x82
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD822 0xDF42
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00018B42
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud822\udf42

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