U+18BAB "𘮫" Khitan Small Script Character-# Unicode Character

U+18BAB "𘮫" Khitan Small Script Character-# is a specific logogram from the Khitan Small Script, a partially deciphered writing system used by the Khitan people of northern China during the Liao dynasty (907–1125 CE). This particular glyph, as indicated by the placeholder "#", represents one of the hundreds of individual characters in the script that were employed to write the Khitan language, which is now extinct and not fully understood by modern linguists. Its inclusion in the Unicode standard, under the Supplementary Multilingual Plane within the Khitan Small Script block (U+18B00–U+18CFF), facilitates digital preservation and study of this ancient script.

General Properties

Code Point	U+18BAB
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	𘮫
HTML Hex Encoding	𘮫
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x98 0xAE 0xAB
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD822 0xDFAB
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00018BAB
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud822\udfab

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