U+18C38 "饦案" Khitan Small Script Character-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

饦案

U+18C38 "饦案" Khitan Small Script Character-# is a specific logographic or syllabic glyph from the Khitan Small Script, a writing system used historically by the Khitan people of the Liao dynasty in northern China to write the Khitan language. This script, which was deciphered only partially in modern times, consists of hundreds of distinct characters that represent syllables or morphemes. While the exact phonetic or semantic value of U+18C38 has not been definitively established by scholars, it is part of a larger corpus of inscriptions and texts that help linguists and historians understand the structure and vocabulary of the now extinct Khitan language. Its inclusion in the Unicode Standard ensures that researchers and digital archivists can encode and preserve this rare script for future study and digital representation.

General Properties

Code Point U+18C38
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 𘰸
HTML Hex Encoding 𘰸
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x98 0xB0 0xB8
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD823 0xDC38
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00018C38
C/C++/Java Escape \ud823\udc38

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