U+18BE8 "𘯨" Khitan Small Script Character-# Unicode Character

U+18BE8 "𘯨" Khitan Small Script Character-# is part of the Khitan Small Script block, a historical writing system used by the Khitan people during the Liao dynasty (907–1125 CE) to write the now-extinct Khitan language. This script, which was deciphered only partially in modern times, consists of over 400 characters representing syllables, and this particular character is a unique glyph whose specific phonetic value or meaning may not be fully confirmed due to the incomplete state of decipherment. The inclusion of U+18BE8 in Unicode (Standard version 13.0, released in 2020) helps preserve this fragment of East Asian cultural heritage for digital documentation and research.

General Properties

Code Point	U+18BE8
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	𘯨
HTML Hex Encoding	𘯨
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x98 0xAF 0xA8
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD822 0xDFE8
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00018BE8
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud822\udfe8

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