U+18B4E "𘭎" Khitan Small Script Character-# Unicode Character

U+18B4E "𘭎" Khitan Small Script Character-# is a logographic or syllabic sign from the Khitan Small Script, an ancient writing system historically used to record the Khitan language during China's Liao dynasty from the 10th to the 12th centuries. This script, distinct from the older and larger Khitan Large Script, was designed with simplified characters to represent the phonetic and grammatical features of the Khitan language, which remains only partially deciphered by modern scholars. As a specific grapheme within this repertoire, U+18B4E contributes to the fragmentary yet crucial corpus of texts on monuments, coins, and inscriptions that linguists and historians analyze to reconstruct Khitan history and linguistic structure. Its inclusion in the Unicode Standard ensures that digital preservation and scholarly research of this undeciphered writing system can continue with standardized representation across modern computer systems.

General Properties

Code Point	U+18B4E
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	𘭎
HTML Hex Encoding	𘭎
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x98 0xAD 0x8E
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD822 0xDF4E
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00018B4E
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud822\udf4e

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