U+18BA5 "𘮥" Khitan Small Script Character-# Unicode Character

U+18BA5 "𘮥" Khitan Small Script Character-# is a logographic or syllabic sign from the Khitan Small Script, a writing system used by the Khitan people of the Liao Dynasty in northern China from the 10th to the 12th centuries. As one of over 400 identified characters in this script, this specific glyph represents a sound or word element in the Khitan language, which remains only partially deciphered. The character was added to Unicode in 2019 as part of the Khitan Small Script block, helping to preserve and digitally encode this historical script for scholarly study and future research on the Khitan culture and their linguistic legacy.

General Properties

Code Point	U+18BA5
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	𘮥
HTML Hex Encoding	𘮥
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x98 0xAE 0xA5
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD822 0xDFA5
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00018BA5
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud822\udfa5

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