U+18BCA "𘯊" Khitan Small Script Character-# Unicode Character

U+18BCA "𘯊" Khitan Small Script Character-# is a specific glyph from the Khitan Small Script, a historical writing system used by the Khitan people of the Liao Dynasty in northern China from the 10th to the 12th centuries. This script, which is distinct from the earlier Khitan Large Script and from Chinese characters, was used primarily for official and ceremonial purposes and is still not fully deciphered by scholars. The character itself represents a single phonetic syllable or morpheme within the script's complex logographic and syllabic system, and its inclusion in the Unicode Standard allows for digital preservation and study of this ancient language.

General Properties

Code Point	U+18BCA
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	𘯊
HTML Hex Encoding	𘯊
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x98 0xAF 0x8A
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD822 0xDFCA
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00018BCA
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud822\udfca

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