U+18B5B "𘭛" Khitan Small Script Character-# Unicode Character

U+18B5B "𘭛" Khitan Small Script Character-# is a specific glyph belonging to the Khitan Small Script, a historical writing system used between the 10th and 12th centuries by the Khitan people of the Liao Dynasty in northern China. This script was employed to record the Khitan language, which is now extinct and largely undeciphered, and each character typically represents a syllable rather than an individual phoneme. Character U+18B5B is one of several hundred logographic and syllabic signs in this complex script, which was derived from Chinese characters but adapted to fit the phonetic and grammatical structure of the Khitan language. Its inclusion in the Unicode Standard helps preserve and facilitate the digital study of this rare and culturally significant writing system, aiding researchers in the ongoing effort to fully understand its usage and meaning.

General Properties

Code Point	U+18B5B
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	𘭛
HTML Hex Encoding	𘭛
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x98 0xAD 0x9B
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD822 0xDF5B
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00018B5B
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud822\udf5b

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