U+18BA4 "𘮤" Khitan Small Script Character-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𘮤
U+18BA4 "𘮤" Khitan Small Script Character-# is a specific glyph from the Khitan Small Script, a historical writing system used by the Khitan people of the Liao Dynasty (907–1125 CE) in what is now northern China. This character is part of a largely undeciphered script that combined logographic and syllabic elements to write the extinct Khitan language. As of Unicode version 13.0, it is encoded in the Supplementary Multilingual Plane, reflecting scholarly efforts to preserve and study this ancient script. The exact phonetic or semantic value of this particular character remains unknown, as the script has only been partially deciphered through analysis of bilingual inscriptions and archaeological findings.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+18BA4 |
| 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 | 𘮤 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𘮤 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x98 0xAE 0xA4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD822 0xDFA4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00018BA4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud822\udfa4 |
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 |