U+18BCE "𘯎" Khitan Small Script Character-# Unicode Character

U+18BCE "𘯎" Khitan Small Script Character-# is a specific glyph from the Khitan small script, a historic writing system used by the Khitan people to record the Khitan language during the Liao Dynasty in northern China (10th to 12th centuries). This character represents one of the many logographic or syllabic signs in the script, which was deciphered only partially through modern scholarship. Its inclusion in Unicode under the Khitan Small Script block helps preserve and digitally represent a unique cultural artifact, though its exact phonetic value or meaning within the Khitan language remains uncertain or unlabeled, as indicated by the generic "#" placeholder in its name.

General Properties

Code Point	U+18BCE
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	𘯎
HTML Hex Encoding	𘯎
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x98 0xAF 0x8E
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD822 0xDFCE
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00018BCE
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud822\udfce

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