U+18BB3 "𘮳" Khitan Small Script Character-# Unicode Character

U+18BB3 "𘮳" Khitan Small Script Character-# is a specific glyph from the Khitan small script, a partially deciphered logophonetic writing system historically used by the Khitan people in northern China during the Liao Dynasty (907–1125 CE). This character represents one of several hundred distinct symbols in the small script, which was employed primarily for administrative and ceremonial records, often alongside the more complex Khitan large script. While the exact phonetic or semantic value of U+18BB3 is not fully understood due to the ongoing process of decipherment, its inclusion in Unicode supports the digital preservation and scholarly study of this crucial yet enigmatic artifact of East Asian paleography.

General Properties

Code Point	U+18BB3
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	𘮳
HTML Hex Encoding	𘮳
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x98 0xAE 0xB3
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD822 0xDFB3
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00018BB3
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud822\udfb3

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