U+18BE2 "𘯢" Khitan Small Script Character-# Unicode Character

U+18BE2 "𘯢" Khitan Small Script Character-# is part of the Khitan Small Script block, which encodes the writing system used by the Khitan people of the Liao Dynasty in northern China from the 10th to the 12th centuries. This specific character represents a single syllabic or phonetic element from the script, which is logographic and syllabic in nature, used to write the now extinct Khitan language. The script was only deciphered in recent decades through the study of bilingual inscriptions, and characters like U+18BE2 contribute to the ongoing scholarly effort to understand and digitally preserve this historic writing system.

General Properties

Code Point	U+18BE2
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	𘯢
HTML Hex Encoding	𘯢
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x98 0xAF 0xA2
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD822 0xDFE2
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00018BE2
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud822\udfe2

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