U+18B63 "𘭣" Khitan Small Script Character-# Unicode Character

U+18B63 "𘭣" Khitan Small Script Character-# is a specific glyph from the Khitan Small Script, a historical writing system used by the Khitan people to record the Khitan language during the Liao dynasty in northern China, around the 10th to 12th centuries. This character is one of several hundred logographic and syllabic signs in the script, which was primarily employed for official inscriptions and documents before falling into disuse. The precise phonetic or semantic value of this particular character has not been definitively deciphered due to the limited surviving texts and the complex nature of the script’s encoding. Its inclusion in Unicode supports digital preservation and scholarly research, enabling linguists and historians to study this extinct script through modern computational tools.

General Properties

Code Point	U+18B63
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	𘭣
HTML Hex Encoding	𘭣
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x98 0xAD 0xA3
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD822 0xDF63
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00018B63
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud822\udf63

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