U+18B51 "𘭑" Khitan Small Script Character-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𘭑

U+18B51 "𘭑" Khitan Small Script Character-# is a specific logogram 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, which was deciphered only partially in modern times. This script, distinct from the earlier Khitan Large Script, combined phonetic and semantic elements to represent the Khitan language, and character U+18B51 belongs to the repertoire of over 400 known signs that have been encoded in Unicode to facilitate digital preservation and academic research. The glyph itself represents a particular syllable or word, though its exact reading remains a subject of ongoing scholarly study due to the limited number of surviving texts and the complexity of the script's underlying grammar. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that this rare character can be displayed, stored, and transmitted in modern computing environments, supporting efforts to analyze and document the linguistic he

General Properties

Code Point U+18B51
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 𘭑
HTML Hex Encoding 𘭑
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x98 0xAD 0x91
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD822 0xDF51
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00018B51
C/C++/Java Escape \ud822\udf51

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