U+18BA3 "𘮣" Khitan Small Script Character-# Unicode Character

U+18BA3 "𘮣" Khitan Small Script Character-# is a specific glyph from the Khitan Small Script, a historical writing system used to record the Khitan language spoken by the Khitan people of the Liao dynasty in medieval China. This character is one of hundreds of logographic or syllabic signs in the script, which remains only partially deciphered by modern scholars. The inclusion of U+18BA3 in the Unicode standard, within the Khitan Small Script block, ensures that researchers and linguists can digitally represent and exchange this ancient writing for academic study and preservation, though its exact phonetic value or meaning is not yet fully understood.

General Properties

Code Point	U+18BA3
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	𘮣
HTML Hex Encoding	𘮣
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x98 0xAE 0xA3
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD822 0xDFA3
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00018BA3
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud822\udfa3

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