U+18B57 "𘭗" Khitan Small Script Character-# Unicode Character

U+18B57 "𘭗" Khitan Small Script Character-# is a logogram from the Khitan Small Script, a writing system historically used by the Khitan people to record the Khitan language during the Liao dynasty in northern China. This specific character, encoded in Unicode’s Supplementary Multilingual Plane, represents one of the hundreds of distinct glyphs in the script, which combined phonetic and ideographic elements to transcribe a now-extinct language. The Khitan Small Script was deciphered primarily through comparative analysis with Chinese historical records and bilingual inscriptions, though many characters, including U+18B57, retain uncertain or debated phonetic and semantic values. Its inclusion in Unicode helps preserve this rare script for digital scholarship and historical study.

General Properties

Code Point	U+18B57
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	𘭗
HTML Hex Encoding	𘭗
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x98 0xAD 0x97
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD822 0xDF57
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00018B57
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud822\udf57

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