U+18B85 "𘮅" Khitan Small Script Character-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𘮅

U+18B85 "𘮅" Khitan Small Script Character-# is a specific logographic symbol from the Khitan Small Script, a writing system used between the 10th and 12th centuries by the Khitan people of the Liao Dynasty in northern China to record the now extinct Khitan language. This script, which was deciphered only partially in modern times, consists of over 370 known characters, many representing syllables or morphemes, and U+18B85 belongs to a block of characters encoded in Unicode’s Supplementary Multilingual Plane to preserve the historical and linguistic heritage of the Khitan culture. As of its encoding, this particular character is identified by a unique number but lacks a fully confirmed phonetic or semantic reading, reflecting the ongoing scholarly efforts to understand the script’s complex system and its relationship to Chinese and other Altaic languages.

General Properties

Code Point U+18B85
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 𘮅
HTML Hex Encoding 𘮅
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x98 0xAE 0x85
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD822 0xDF85
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00018B85
C/C++/Java Escape \ud822\udf85

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