U+18BAA "𘮪" Khitan Small Script Character-# Unicode Character

U+18BAA "𘮪" Khitan Small Script Character-# is a specific grapheme from the Khitan Small Script, a historic writing system used by the Khitan people of the Liao Dynasty in East Asia between the 10th and 12th centuries. This script was employed to write the now extinct Khitan language and is distinct from the earlier Khitan Large Script, with characters formed from simplified, cursive-like strokes representing syllables or phonetic units. The exact phonetic value or lexical meaning of U+18BAA is not fully deciphered, as the script remains only partially understood by modern scholars, and it is included in the Unicode Standard to support digital preservation and research of this ancient writing system.

General Properties

Code Point	U+18BAA
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	𘮪
HTML Hex Encoding	𘮪
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x98 0xAE 0xAA
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD822 0xDFAA
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00018BAA
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud822\udfaa

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