U+18BB9 "𘮹" Khitan Small Script Character-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+18BB9 "𘮹" Khitan Small Script Character-# is a specific glyph from the Khitan Small Script, a semanto-phonetic writing system used from the 10th to the 12th century by the Khitan people of the Liao Dynasty in northern China. This particular character represents an individual logographic or syllabic unit, whose precise phonetic value and meaning remain only partially deciphered by modern scholars due to the limited corpus and lack of a Rosetta Stone equivalent. It belongs to a set of over 470 distinct characters that were employed for official documents, inscriptions, and literature, reflecting the sophisticated administrative and cultural needs of the Khitan empire. The inclusion of such characters in Unicode helps preserve and facilitate the digital study of this extinct script, supporting ongoing research into the history and language of a largely lost civilization.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
𘮹 |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
𘮹 |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xF0 0x98 0xAE 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0xD822 0xDFB9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x00018BB9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\ud822\udfb9 |
Unicode Properties