U+18C17 "𘰗" Khitan Small Script Character-# Unicode Character

U+18C17 "𘰗" Khitan Small Script Character-# is a specific logographic character belonging to the Khitan Small Script, a writing system historically used by the Khitan people of the Liao Dynasty in northern China from the 10th to the 12th centuries. This script, distinct from the larger and more complex Khitan Large Script, remains largely undeciphered, and this particular character represents a unique syllable or morpheme whose exact phonetic value and meaning are not definitively known. It is encoded in Unicode’s Supplementary Private Use Area B, part of a block dedicated to preserving and enabling digital representation of this rare and ancient script for scholarly research and linguistic study.

General Properties

Code Point	U+18C17
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	𘰗
HTML Hex Encoding	𘰗
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x98 0xB0 0x97
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD823 0xDC17
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00018C17
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud823\udc17

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