U+18BC8 "𘯈" Khitan Small Script Character-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+18BC8 "𘯈" Khitan Small Script Character-# is a specific logographic or syllabic glyph from the Khitan Small Script, a historical writing system used by the Khitan people of the Liao Dynasty in northern China during the 10th through 12th centuries. This character represents one of the many unique symbols that formed a complex script inspired by Chinese characters but with distinct phonetic and semantic functions, primarily used for recording the now extinct Khitan language. As part of the Unicode standard's Supplementary Multilingual Plane, it helps preserve and digitally represent this ancient script for scholarly study and cultural heritage, though the exact linguistic meaning of this particular character is not fully deciphered due to the limited surviving texts and incomplete modern understanding of the script.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
𘯈 |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
𘯈 |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xF0 0x98 0xAF 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0xD822 0xDFC8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x00018BC8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\ud822\udfc8 |
Unicode Properties