U+18BED "𘯭" Khitan Small Script Character-# Unicode Character

U+18BED "𘯭" Khitan Small Script Character-# is a specific glyph from the Khitan Small Script, a partially deciphered logographic writing system historically used by the Khitan people of northern China to record the Khitan language during the Liao dynasty (907–1125 CE). This character belongs to a set of several hundred unique signs that represent syllables or morphemes, and its precise phonetic or semantic value remains a subject of ongoing scholarly research, as the script is not yet fully understood. The inclusion of U+18BED in the Unicode Standard ensures that this ancient character can be digitally represented, preserved, and studied by linguists and historians working to reconstruct the Khitan language and its cultural context.

General Properties

Code Point	U+18BED
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	𘯭
HTML Hex Encoding	𘯭
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x98 0xAF 0xAD
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD822 0xDFED
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00018BED
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud822\udfed

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