U+18BA8 "𘮨" Khitan Small Script Character-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𘮨

U+18BA8 "𘮨" Khitan Small Script Character-# is a specific logogram used in the Khitan Small Script, a writing system developed by the Khitan people to record the now-extinct Khitan language during the Liao Dynasty in East Asia around the 10th to 12th centuries. This script, which remains only partially deciphered by modern linguists, consists of hundreds of individual characters that represent either syllables or whole words, and the character at this code point belongs to a block of the Unicode Standard dedicated to preserving these historical symbols for digital text and scholarly research. Its precise phonetic value or meaning is not fully confirmed due to the limited number of surviving inscriptions, but it is recognized as part of a complex writing system that was influenced by Chinese characters while maintaining distinct structural and functional properties.

General Properties

Code Point U+18BA8
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 𘮨
HTML Hex Encoding 𘮨
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x98 0xAE 0xA8
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD822 0xDFA8
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00018BA8
C/C++/Java Escape \ud822\udfa8

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