U+18BEB "𘯫" Khitan Small Script Character-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+18BEB "𘯫" Khitan Small Script Character-# is a specific glyph belonging to the Khitan Small Script, a historical writing system used during the Liao Dynasty in northern China (907-1125 CE) to represent the now-extinct Khitan language. This character, like others in its script, is a logographic or syllabic sign whose exact phonetic or semantic value is often unknown to modern scholars due to the limited number of deciphered texts and the script's complex structure. It was encoded in Unicode's Supplementary Multilingual Plane in 2020 as part of a larger effort to preserve and allow digital representation of this unique medieval script. While the precise meaning of this particular character remains unidentified, its existence in the Unicode standard enables researchers, linguists, and digital archivists to study and transcribe ancient Khitan inscriptions more effectively.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
𘯫 |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
𘯫 |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xF0 0x98 0xAF 0xAB |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0xD822 0xDFEB |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x00018BEB |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\ud822\udfeb |
Unicode Properties