U+18BAC "𘮬" Khitan Small Script Character-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𘮬

U+18BAC "𘮬" Khitan Small Script Character-# is a specific glyph from the Khitan Small Script, a historical writing system used by the Khitan people during the Liao Dynasty in northern China, dating from the 10th to the 12th centuries. This character represents a syllabic or phonetic unit within the script, which was primarily employed for writing the Khitan language, a now-extinct language isolate. The Khitan Small Script was only fully deciphered in recent decades through the study of surviving inscriptions and texts, making each encoded character like "𘮬" a crucial piece for linguistic and historical research. Its inclusion in the Unicode standard preserves digital access to this ancient script, allowing scholars and enthusiasts to study, display, and process it on modern computing systems.

General Properties

Code Point U+18BAC
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 𘮬
HTML Hex Encoding 𘮬
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x98 0xAE 0xAC
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD822 0xDFAC
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00018BAC
C/C++/Java Escape \ud822\udfac

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