U+18BF5 "𘯵" Khitan Small Script Character-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𘯵

U+18BF5 "𘯵" Khitan Small Script Character-# is a specific glyph from the Khitan Small Script, a historical writing system used from the 10th to the 12th century by the Khitan people, who founded the Liao Dynasty in northern China. This script was primarily employed for administrative, literary, and ritual purposes, and it consists of over 400 distinct characters, many of which represent syllables or semantic units. The character U+18BF5 falls within the Khitan Small Script block that was added to the Unicode Standard in 2021 as part of version 14.0, enabling digital preservation and study of this extinct language. Although the exact phonetic or semantic value of this particular character is not definitively known, it contributes to the ongoing scholarly effort to decode and understand the Khitan language, which remains only partially deciphered due to the limited corpus of surviving inscriptions and texts.

General Properties

Code Point U+18BF5
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 𘯵
HTML Hex Encoding 𘯵
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x98 0xAF 0xB5
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD822 0xDFF5
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00018BF5
C/C++/Java Escape \ud822\udff5

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