U+18BD5 "𘯕" Khitan Small Script Character-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𘯕

U+18BD5 "𘯕" Khitan Small Script Character-# is a specific glyph from the Khitan Small Script, a partially deciphered logographic and syllabic writing system used by the Khitan people of the Liao Dynasty (907–1125 CE) in northern China and Mongolia to record their now-extinct Khitan language. This particular character, identified by its unique hexadecimal code point in the Unicode Supplementary Multilingual Plane, represents an individual symbol within the script's repertoire, though the precise phonetic or semantic value of U+18BD5 remains uncertain due to the ongoing scholarly efforts to fully decode the script from surviving inscriptions and manuscripts. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that this historical script can be digitally preserved and studied by linguists and historians worldwide.

General Properties

Code Point U+18BD5
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 𘯕
HTML Hex Encoding 𘯕
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x98 0xAF 0x95
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD822 0xDFD5
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00018BD5
C/C++/Java Escape \ud822\udfd5

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