U+18B48 "𘭈" Khitan Small Script Character-# Unicode Character

U+18B48 "𘭈" Khitan Small Script Character-# is a specific glyph from the Khitan Small Script, a partially deciphered logographic writing system used by the Khitan people of the Liao Dynasty in historical northern China. This character, like others in its block, represents a syllable or word and is part of a script that was employed primarily for monumental inscriptions and official documents before being lost to history for centuries. Its inclusion in Unicode helps preserve and facilitate the digital study of this extinct script, offering researchers and linguists a standardized way to encode and analyze its complex characters. The exact phonetic value or meaning of this particular sign remains uncertain due to the ongoing nature of scholarly work on the script’s decipherment.

General Properties

Code Point	U+18B48
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	𘭈
HTML Hex Encoding	𘭈
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x98 0xAD 0x88
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD822 0xDF48
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00018B48
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud822\udf48

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