U+18C42 "𘱂" Khitan Small Script Character-# Unicode Character

U+18C42 "𘱂" Khitan Small Script Character-# is a single logographic or syllabic character from the Khitan Small Script, a historical writing system used to record the now-extinct Khitan language spoken by the Khitan people of the Liao Dynasty in northern China from the 10th to the 12th centuries. This specific glyph, whose exact phonetic value and meaning remain undeciphered, represents one of hundreds of distinct signs in the script that combined with larger semantic determinatives to form words. First encoded in Unicode version 13.0 in 2020, its inclusion in the digital standard helps preserve the fragmented record of this unique script, which was only partially deciphered through archaeological finds like memorial epitaphs.

General Properties

Code Point	U+18C42
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	𘱂
HTML Hex Encoding	𘱂
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x98 0xB1 0x82
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD823 0xDC42
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00018C42
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud823\udc42

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