U+18C5C "𘱜" Khitan Small Script Character-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𘱜
U+18C5C "𘱜" Khitan Small Script Character-# is a specific glyph from the Khitan Small Script, a historical writing system used by the Khitan people of northern China during the Liao Dynasty (907–1125 CE) to write the now extinct Khitan language. This script, which was deciphered through scholarly reconstruction, consists of around 400 known characters that represent syllables or logographic units, and each one holds a phonetic or semantic role in the language. As part of Unicode’s Supplementary Multilingual Plane, this particular character contributes to preserving the linguistic heritage of the Khitan civilization by enabling digital encoding and study of their complex writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+18C5C |
| 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 | 𘱜 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𘱜 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x98 0xB1 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD823 0xDC5C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00018C5C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud823\udc5c |
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 |