U+18B69 "𘭩" Khitan Small Script Character-# Unicode Character

U+18B69 "𘭩" Khitan Small Script Character-# is a specific logographic or syllabic glyph from the Khitan Small Script, a writing system historically used by the Khitan people of the Liao Dynasty in northern China around the 10th to 12th centuries. This script was primarily employed for writing the already extinct Khitan language, and unlike its larger sibling the Khitan Large Script, it was inspired by Chinese characters but simplified in form to represent syllables or morphemes. Character U+18B69 is one of many signs in the Unicode block for Khitan Small Script, serving as a phonetic or semantic element whose exact reading and meaning are often reconstructed through comparative study of surviving inscriptions. Its inclusion in Unicode helps preserve and digitally encode this rare script, facilitating research into the history and language of a once-dominant steppe empire.

General Properties

Code Point	U+18B69
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	𘭩
HTML Hex Encoding	𘭩
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x98 0xAD 0xA9
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD822 0xDF69
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00018B69
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud822\udf69

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