U+18BE1 "𘯡" Khitan Small Script Character-# Unicode Character

U+18BE1 "𘯡" 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 northern China during the Liao Dynasty (907–1125 CE). This script was devised to represent the Khitan language, which is largely undeciphered and belongs to the Para-Mongolic language family. The character itself is encoded in the Unicode Standard under the Khitan Small Script block, which was added in version 13.0 (2020) to support scholarly research and digital preservation of this extinct writing system. Its precise phonetic or semantic value remains unknown due to the limited corpus and lack of bilingual texts, making it a subject of ongoing study among linguists and epigraphers.

General Properties

Code Point	U+18BE1
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	𘯡
HTML Hex Encoding	𘯡
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x98 0xAF 0xA1
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD822 0xDFE1
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00018BE1
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud822\udfe1

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