U+18C52 "𘱒" Khitan Small Script Character-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𘱒

U+18C52 "𘱒" Khitan Small Script Character-# is a specific logographic or syllabic glyph from the Khitan Small Script, an ancient writing system used by the Khitan people of the Liao Dynasty in northern China from the 10th to the 12th century. This script was employed to write the now extinct Khitan language, which belongs to the Para-Mongolic language family, and its characters often represent syllables or entire morphemes rather than individual sounds. The character itself, though not yet definitively deciphered in its exact phonetic value or meaning, is part of a larger corpus of over 370 known Khitan Small Script characters that scholars are still working to fully understand through comparative analysis with Chinese historical records and bilingual inscriptions. Its inclusion in the Unicode Standard as part of the Supplementary Multilingual Plane ensures that this fragment of a lost linguistic heritage can be digitally preserved and studied by modern researchers.

General Properties

Code Point U+18C52
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 𘱒
HTML Hex Encoding 𘱒
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x98 0xB1 0x92
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD823 0xDC52
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00018C52
C/C++/Java Escape \ud823\udc52

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