U+18B46 "𘭆" Khitan Small Script Character-# Unicode Character

U+18B46 "𘭆" Khitan Small Script Character-# is a specific grapheme from the Khitan Small Script, a historical writing system used by the Khitan people of the Liao Dynasty in northern China between the 10th and 12th centuries. This script was primarily employed for writing the now-extinct Khitan language and features a mix of logographic and phonetic elements, with each character representing either a word or a syllable. Character U+18B46, part of the Supplementary Multilingual Plane, was officially encoded in Unicode version 13.0 in 2020 to aid in the digital preservation and scholarly study of this ancient script, though its exact phonetic value or meaning remains undeciphered in many cases due to the limited surviving texts and ongoing research.

General Properties

Code Point	U+18B46
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	𘭆
HTML Hex Encoding	𘭆
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x98 0xAD 0x86
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD822 0xDF46
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00018B46
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud822\udf46

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