U+18C53 "𘱓" Khitan Small Script Character-# Unicode Character

U+18C53 "𘱓" Khitan Small Script Character-# is a specific glyph from the Khitan Small Script, a historical writing system used by the Khitan people of the Liao Dynasty in northern China from the 10th to the 12th centuries. This character represents one of hundreds of logographic symbols that were employed to transcribe the now extinct Khitan language, which is unrelated to Chinese. The Khitan Small Script was derived from Chinese characters and influenced by the Uyghur alphabet, and it remains only partially deciphered by modern scholars. U+18C53 is encoded in the Supplementary Multilingual Plane, specifically within the Khitan Small Script block, which was added to the Unicode Standard to help preserve and facilitate research into this ancient script.

General Properties

Code Point	U+18C53
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	𘱓
HTML Hex Encoding	𘱓
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x98 0xB1 0x93
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD823 0xDC53
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00018C53
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud823\udc53

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