U+18BAE "𘮮" Khitan Small Script Character-# Unicode Character

U+18BAE "𘮮" Khitan Small Script Character-# is a specific logographic or syllabic sign from the Khitan Small Script, a complex writing system used between the 10th and 12th centuries by the Khitan people of the Liao Dynasty in northern China. This particular glyph represents one of many distinct characters within that script, which functioned as a phonetic and semantic notation for the Khitan language, distinct from the better-known Khitan Large Script. As part of the Unicode standard's Supplement block for Khitan Small Script, U+18BAE was officially encoded to support digital preservation and scholarly study of this historical writing system, helping linguists and historians decode surviving inscriptions and texts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+18BAE
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	𘮮
HTML Hex Encoding	𘮮
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x98 0xAE 0xAE
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD822 0xDFAE
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00018BAE
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud822\udfae

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