U+18BE3 "𘯣" Khitan Small Script Character-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+18BE3 "𘯣" Khitan Small Script Character-# is a specific logographic or syllabic grapheme from the Khitan Small Script, a historical writing system used between the 10th and 12th centuries by the Khitan people of the Liao Dynasty in northern China. This script was designed to represent the Khitan language, which is now extinct and largely undeciphered, using a combination of phonetic and semantic characters. The character 𘯣 is one of many in this script that have been encoded in Unicode’s Supplementary Multilingual Plane, allowing for digital preservation and study. Due to the limited surviving texts and the ongoing scholarly effort to decode the language, the exact phonetic value or meaning of U+18BE3 remains unknown, and it is often catalogued by its numerical designation in standard reference works. Its inclusion in Unicode helps ensure that researchers can digitally access and analyze this rare script alongside other historical writing systems.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
𘯣 |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
𘯣 |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xF0 0x98 0xAF 0xA3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0xD822 0xDFE3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x00018BE3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\ud822\udfe3 |
Unicode Properties